"When you sing, always tell the truth."

-- Billie Holiday

#Music Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.”
“We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.”
“I donâ€™t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyâ€™re going to get tired of me and take off.”
“President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.”
“The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.”
“Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.”
“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.”
“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.”

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