"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough."

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Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.183, Broadway Books

Billie Holiday

#Black Quotes #Enough Quotes #Said Quotes

“Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.”
“I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.”
“I think a lot of women feel so obligated right now to do so many different things that they don't really stop and think what do they want and it's okay not be anything. It's okay not to have a big career. It's okay not to have children. It's much better to figure out what you really want. What really makes you happy instead of what everybody else wanted for you.”

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“People have been oversold, over-branded, overhyped, over-promised. And they basically trust a small local operator more than they trust the big corporate entity.”
“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”
“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2013). “Freak The Mighty”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.
“Riots are the voices of the unheard.”
“My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.”

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