Beverly Sills Quotes

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• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Health
  • Suffering

• Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
  • Infection

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Work
  • Company
  • Performance

• More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Lost

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Important
  • Happiness

• I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Property
  • Seen
  • Deer

• If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Enough
  • King
  • Say

• I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Music
  • Bad

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

  

  Dale Archer
  • You
  • Learn
  • Responsible

• Boxing is not for killing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Boxing

• Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.

  

  Patanjali

• The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Republicans
  • Establishment
  • Ballot

• Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Earth
  • Law

• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Disease
  • Jumping
  • Crooked

• Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Writing
  • Made
  • Hotel

• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  

  Beverly Sills