#si

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#any #copy #earth #feeling #got

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#eighteen #got #i #just #kids

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#country #damn #forget #habit #hell

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. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#anything #better #dope #hard #hard way

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