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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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 Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
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In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.
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I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
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I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
