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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

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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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Billie Holiday
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I cant stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it aint music, its close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. – Billie Holiday

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Singing
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Billie Holiday
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In this country, dont forget, a habit is no damn private hell. Theres no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country its the worst kind of hell for those who love you. – Billie Holiday

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Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive. – Sarah Palin

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Im talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. Im talking young here, not a college drinking crowd. – George Thorogood

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Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didnt have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything. – George Grove

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I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. – Jane Elliot

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Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown,Jr.

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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. – Pope John Paul II

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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. – R. D. Laing

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