Billie Jean King Quotes
It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
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How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.
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People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.
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I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.
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It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
