Bobby Riggs Quotes
I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.
