Billie Jean King Quotes
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
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Deserve your dream.
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We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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I do not believe in hypocrisy.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
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Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.
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The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
