Billie Jean King Quotes
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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The effects of climate change are real and only getting worse. I would like to build on the promises of the Paris Climate Agreement and make our country a global leader on the fight against climate change.
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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
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Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
