Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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All of us grow.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.
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Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
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I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.
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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
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Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
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It takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.
