Billie Jean King Quotes
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
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I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.
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I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.
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I think 90% of women that I come into contact with are fans of my hair.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
