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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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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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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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
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I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.
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Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
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Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.
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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
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I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
