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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.

Billie Holiday

There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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Business Smile Throw Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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, let alone two years or ten years.
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Myself Night Sing Song Stand
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Body Eat Life Love Yourself
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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Fall Myself Reason See
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.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
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
In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Country Greatness Myself Short Start
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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Change Hate Music Myself Sing
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing

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.

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