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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.

I'm dying always.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.