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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

Billie Holiday

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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Marriage Myself Parents Young
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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Heart Home Lust Window
All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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Hard Kill Love Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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Exercise Myself Night Sing Stand
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Improvisation Myself
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Known Myself Stop Thinking Willing
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself

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