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.Eleanora Fagan
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
Carla Hall -
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.
Eddie Huang -
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Aaron Paul -
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.
Nadia Giosia -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Nat King Cole
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
Ram Kapoor -
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.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
Katha Pollitt -
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?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
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.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Bea Arthur -
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White -
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
C. Wright Mills -
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.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
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.
Imelda Marcos -
You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
Olivia Culpo
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The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.
Hannah Storm -
Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.
Catherynne M. Valente -
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
Marquis de Lafayette -
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.
Eleanora Fagan