Billie Jean King Quotes

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Billie Jean King

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• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Need

• One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Change
  • Helping
  • Looking

• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • News
  • Evening

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • You
  • Myself
  • Director

• Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Pride

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Eye
  • Security
  • Questions

• The bad boys get all the best lines.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Lines

• I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Food

• I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Up
  • Star

• Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.

  

  Aeschylus

• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Song

• Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

  

  Jimmy Durante

• A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

  

  Al Roker
  • World
  • Effort

• I don't go out of my way to be friendly, because it's completely unnecessary. People tell you what they are going to tell you no matter what.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • People

• Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me.

  

  Jo Dee Messina
  • World
  • Writing
  • Night

• To do de-Baathification without an agreed process of reconciliation threw tens of thousands of people out of their jobs, out of their homes, out of their future, and even robbed them of their position in society.

  

  David Petraeus
  • People
  • Future
  • Society

• The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

  

  Lewis Cass
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Lost

• It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

  

  Billie Jean King