Beverly Sills Quotes

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

Beverly Sills

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1929 - July 2, 2007

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What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Jessica Hahn

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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

John Anderson

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Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

Jerome Powell

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When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.

Andrew Zimmern

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What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Matthew Lesko

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People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.

Stephen Graham

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The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

Michio Kaku

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It's interesting in seeing when I'm talking to men in particular and telling them I'm an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I'm a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

Miriam Shor

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When I have children, it will be my choice, and I won't feel under any pressure.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

Colleen Atwood

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I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

Bret Stephens

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Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

Brad Goreski

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