Billie Jean King Quotes
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
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All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.
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He had no picture of her. She would be a memory that would fade as her warmth would fade, but would fade over the years, and he would forget the passion that gave life to this face.
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I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
