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Billie Holiday

"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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"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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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"In your winter you deny your spring."

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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning."
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"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing."
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"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."
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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."
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"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
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"Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on."
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