Billie Jean King Quotes

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

Billie Jean King

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Help
  • Gay

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • May
  • Business
  • Quality

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Never

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Family
  • Abandoned
  • Dining

• I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stories

• Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Children
  • Stories
  • Lion

• We know that in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • World

• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Communication
  • Journalism

• Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • People
  • May
  • Gay