Billie Jean King Quotes

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Athlete | November 22, 1943
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I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.
Charlie Chaplin
[C]ollaboration between... divergent systems is possible... only as long as both are stable. ...International security is ...based upon the internal political and social security of each of the Great Powers.
Peter Drucker
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The Security Council has not been able to implement its own resolutions because the five permanent members – instead of being a policeman – unfortunately what we’ve seen over the years, they’ve sort of turned into gangsters. This is the reality.
Bassem Youssef
I felt so aimless — like a tennis ball, bouncing, bouncing — I began to wonder where I'd land.
James Baldwin
But African languages refused to die. They would not simply go to the way of Latin to become the fossils for linguistic archaeology to dig up, classify, and argue about the international conferences.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
I always wonder why some poets become "international"? I guess they were tremendously good. I think of people like Pablo Neruda. He crossed all sorts of geographical lines. But he was also from that place, located in that place.
Pablo Neruda
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I was just thinking when I was watching Serena and Venus (Williams), I was thinking, ‘I probably, no way, will ever play at their age.’ But sitting here, I’m like, ‘No, you know what? I might do that.
Billie Jean King
[https://www.wtatennis.com/players/319998/- Naomi Osaka] at the [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Tennis_Association Women's Tennis Association]
Billie Jean King
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[https://www.naomiosaka.com/ Official website] in (English and Japanese)
Billie Jean King
In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.
Sachin Tendulkar
Right now, what we are seeing is an onslaught on civilians, the breakdown of humanitarian systems and profound disrespect for both international law and international humanitarian law. The carnage must stop.
Bassem Youssef
Her works are in major private collections including that of The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi and in many Western museums. Despite being an internationally recognized artist, Esther Mahlangu still presently lives in her village in close and constant contact with her culture.
Esther Mahlangu
She is one of the greatest players who ever lived. . . Martina couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters.
Althea Gibson