Billie Jean King Quotes
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
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It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
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Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
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I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
