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When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

Beverly Sills

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Beverly Sills
Age: 78 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 25
Died: 2007
Died: July 2
Actor
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Musician
Opera Singer
Operatic Soprano
Singer
New York City
New York
Beverley Sills
Jewish
Whole
Love
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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Don't get me started on critics.
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I never share credit or desserts.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
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There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
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I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.
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I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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