"[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about."

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Jose James

#Song Quotes #Real Quotes #Holiday Quotes

“I was not cut out to be a rebel.”
“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
“I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.”
“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.”

Source : Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
“While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.”
“Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.”
“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.”
“Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.”

Source : Percy Dearmer (1915). “Patriotism”

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