"If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat."
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
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"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
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"The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways that were unique to each of us. Her uniqueness was very much a part of the way she sang the songs, the story she wanted to tell through the songs. I didn't really have a full understanding of Billie until I left home -- until I'd lived a little, shall we say. At different seasons of my life, when I'd sing her songs or listen to her albums, I'd hear things I didn't hear before. Wherever you are in life, you'll hear different things in her songs."
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"I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist."
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"With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years."
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"Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph."
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"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said."
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"The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'"
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"And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him."
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"Actually, when you're doing something you love, even when you're busy and it's hectic you don't feel the need to relax. I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing."
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"Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays."
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"It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday."
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"Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws."
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"The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays."
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"Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log."
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