Beverly Sills Quotes
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I think I need security.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Boards don't hit back.
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
