Billie Jean King Quotes
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
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Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.
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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
