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I never sing a song the same way twice.

Billie Holiday

Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Children Himself Lose
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
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
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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
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
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Myself Need Sing
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Clothes Weird World Yourself
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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

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