#si

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#dolls #had #i #kids #like

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. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#down #duck #eating #i #i love

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#damn #keep #like #show #show business

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#decision #discussion #final #goal #just

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#better #better life #education #emphasis #enables

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#boy #civil #civil war #finland #finnish

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#big #council #eye #general #general assembly

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#open-minded #political #political decisions #reaching #represent

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#born #child #concerned #first #good

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#hand #power #responsibility #walks