Billie Jean King Quotes
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
Becki Newton
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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I received free health care.
Joanne Rowling
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
Patricia MacLachlan
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
Paige VanZant
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
Zach LaVine
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
Jack Keane
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
Uri Geller
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
Harold Prince
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin
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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
Cesare Pavese
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It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
Lynn Davies
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Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
Iggy Pop
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My legacy is almost like a personal challenge to go as far as I can go.
Andre Ward
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King