Billie Jean King Quotes
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult.
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Reverend King knew that the path to success could not be zero-sum—our side wins and your side loses.
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Look at the genres women like: a romantic comedy game doesn't exist. Few examples of a documentary game exist. What is the equivalent of a real drama game? They don't exist. Emotion with that complexity for a more mature, older audience are necessary to make medium-like video games healthy so it can be highly respected like the film industry.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
