"I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been."

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Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books

Billie Holiday

#Music Quotes #Comeback Quotes

“I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.”
“We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.”

Source : Émile Coué (2016). “Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion”, p.12, FV Éditions
“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.”

Source : "Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues". www.gothamgazette.com. April 11, 2005.
“In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.”

Source : Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Vaux Baron Vaux (1854). “Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst”, p.210
“When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.”
“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”
“Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.”

Source : Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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