Quote by Billie Holiday
Theres no damn business like show business - you have to smile to

Theres no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up. – Billie Holiday

Other quotes by Billie Holiday

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. – Billie Holiday

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Black History
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, youre out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, youre crazy. It can fix you so you cant play nothing or sing nothing. – Billie Holiday

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Drugs
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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I dont know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but its sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. – Billie Holiday

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car
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Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent Basement Tapes will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilsons reasons for the destruction of the tapes for Smile. – Jon Landau

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smile

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile. – Howard Koch

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smile

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, Damn, were Americans, and smile. – Jay Garner

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smile

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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Its easy to be lazy when theres food lying around backstage or theres a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover. – Alex Kapranos

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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. – W. C. Fields

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