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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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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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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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
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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.
