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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It's brutal out on the football field.
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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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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
