Billie Jean King Quotes

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Live
  • Home
  • Child

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Perfect
  • Player
  • Exist

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Vintage
  • Some People

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Leadership
  • Employees

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Me
  • Body

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Movie
  • You
  • Look

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Game

• Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Business
  • Childhood

• So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Light
  • Victory

• Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Kids

• I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

  

  David Bailey
  • Simple
  • Boy

• All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Men
  • Women