All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.Billie Holiday
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own
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I can't 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 ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.
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