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Quote by Billie Holiday
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He w

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. – Billie Holiday

Other quotes by Billie Holiday

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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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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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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I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. – Greta Gerwig

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I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. Im still a mommas girl at the heart of the situation. – Tori Spelling

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My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. Shes a professor in Boston, and shes been teaching womens studies for 30 years and international politics. – Eliza Dushku

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When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy! – Brooke Burke

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Kiss me and my soul-storm thunders. – Terri Guillemets

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. – Charles Dickens

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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. – Alexander Herzen

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The funny thing is people wont let me pay for things. Ill be in a restaurant and the manager will say, Oh no, its on the house. – Richard Branson

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