Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes
Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
Colson Whitehead -
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
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One healthy thing I'd like for players to know, whether they're active or former, is you likely can't replicate the thrill of playing before 100,000 people and big hits and making that much money. We can get ourselves into trouble trying to.
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The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.
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Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.
