Bobby Riggs Quotes
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.
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The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.
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I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
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I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
