Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes
I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.
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I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.
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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
