Billie Jean King Quotes
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley -
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth -
I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer -
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Babasaheb -
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
Hansika Motwani -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun -
Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
Victoria Pendleton -
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
Dana Carvey -
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson -
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan -
How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
Raghuram Rajan
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
Dane DeHaan -
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
Walter Dean Myers -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
Oren Peli -
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb
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When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
Chris Isaak -
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
Walter Lang -
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'
Zooey Deschanel -
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
Keith Coogan -
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
Billie Jean King