"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."

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Source : record it. 1956 Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.

Billie Holiday

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Records Quotes

“The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
“Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.”

Source : Mary Walton (1991). “Deming management at work”, Putnam Publishing Group
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.”
“There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.”
“Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.”
“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

Source : Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.”
“Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.”

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