Billie Jean King Quotes

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

Billie Jean King

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Corrupt

• I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Surrounded

• 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!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Mind
  • Project
  • Shape

• 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.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Great
  • Space
  • Service

• 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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Care
  • Thought
  • Legacy

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • English
  • Almost
  • Accent

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Done
  • London

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Place
  • Sure

• 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.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Country
  • School
  • Parents

• The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Feeling
  • Dreams
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• 'There is a steep and lofty wall,Where my warders trembling stand,He who at speed shall ride round its height,For him shall be my hand.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Hand
  • Wall

• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Different
  • Single
  • Tree

• For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

  

  Billie Jean King