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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.

Billie Holiday

Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Love Myself Sing Work
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
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
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
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
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
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
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
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
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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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

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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