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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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I honestly feel like 99 percent of people have some kind of self-hate about their looks, and if I can joke about mine, maybe they can feel better about theirs.
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I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
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My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
