"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life."

-- Billie Jean King

#Life Lesson Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.”
“If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.”
“It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.”
“I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!”
“I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.”

Source : "Political comedy pioneer Mort Sahl coming to Marin" by Stan Sinberg, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2004.
“Research is creating new knowledge.”
“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House
“Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself”

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