Billie Jean King Quotes
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
