Billie Jean King Quotes
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.
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I don't really weigh myself, but over time - and I'm not crazy about it - but I know how I want to feel in clothes, and it does become addicting, and once you see results, you want to see more.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
