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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It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
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I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
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How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?
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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.
