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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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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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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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.
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There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
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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.
