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Billie Holiday Quotes
«In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.»
«You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.»
Author: Billie Holiday
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boobies, booby, cane, caning, plantation, plantations, satin, Satins, sugar, sugar cane
«You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.»
«I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.»
Author: Billie Holiday
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close-order drill, close order, drill, drilled, drilling, let alone, nights, succession, two-year, yodel, yodeling
«Money, you have lots of friendshanging round the door.When it's goneand the spending endsThey don't come no more.»
Author: Billie Holiday
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come round, door, ends, get the hang, gone, hanging, hang in, hang out, hang up, lots, money, no more, round, rounder, rounding, round up, spending, spending money
«If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.»
«People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.»
Author: Billie Holiday
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record