Billie Jean King Quotes
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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People work hard.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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To go back means defeat.
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
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It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
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I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
