Beverly Sills Quotes
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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At DonorsChoose.org, we've seen what technology can do for a classroom. We make it easy for teachers to request the materials they need most for their classrooms and for donors to make a meaningful contribution to education.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.
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It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
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When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
