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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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 do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have children before. I had been married only a year before my space station mission, so having three-year-olds is a whole new experience and that's the new adventure. It may sound funny because people have kids every day, but having your own kids, having my own kids, was as fundamentally, or maybe even more fundamentally life changing then even flying in space.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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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.
