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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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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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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I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.
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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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Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!
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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.
