Billie Jean King Quotes

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.

Billie Jean King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1943

Topics

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In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you have in common is you're all gay, but then you start to realise how different your experiences actually are.

Andrew Haigh

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Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.

Toni Collette

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It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

Riz Ahmed

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If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there's probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don't know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.

Ron Howard

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Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.

Jason Moran

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I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.'

Josh Gondelman

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I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

Donald Cerrone

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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Dean Martin

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When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

Chris Lilley

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Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

Christopher Voss

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The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

Chuck Berry

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