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When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.


Billie Lourd

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BILLIE JEAN KING I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
BILLIE JEAN KING Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
BILLIE JEAN KING I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to thin...
BILLIE JEAN KING In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of...
BILLIE JEAN KING When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, ...
BILLIE JEAN KING I wanted to use sports for social change.
BILLIE JEAN KING Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KING In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We h...
BILLIE JEAN KING I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming ...
BILLIE JEAN KING They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your cultur...
BILLIE JEAN KING A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
BILLIE JEAN KING No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
BILLIE JEAN KING Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
BILLIE JEAN KING Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn'...
BILLIE JEAN KING It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating...
BILLIE JEAN KING The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
BILLIE JEAN KING I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
BILLIE JEAN KING There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what i...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillit...
BILLIE JEAN KING Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States...
BILLIE JEAN KING It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a ...
BILLIE JEAN KING I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Sp...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball...
BILLIE JEAN KING A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it ...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. S...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our mu...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.
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