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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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
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I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.
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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.
