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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I want to be an activist professor.
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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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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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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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Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.
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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.
