Billie Jean King Quotes
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I love India.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
