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Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol. -- Serena Williams
Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really. -- David Bailey
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. -- Sally Ride
I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired. -- Nicolas Ghesquiere
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have. -- Mamie Van Doren
I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things. -- Karen Gillan
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho. -- Michael Caine
Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders. -- Paul Hoffman
I would like to work with Jean Reno, and I think it would be amazing to work with Jim Carrey. I would quite like to work with Robert De Niro and probably Christopher Walken. -- Thomas Sangster
I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture. -- Ginger Rogers
You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience. -- Talib Kweli
My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much. -- Hugh Jackman
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work. -- Keith Haring
Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street. -- Mary Quant
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. -- Patti Smith
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. -- Jean Cocteau
Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th. -- Murray Walker
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. -- Thom Gunn
My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush. -- Scott Lynch
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'. -- Harper Lee
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration -- Noam Chomsky
Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher -- Niki Lauda
I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.' -- Rain
I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous. -- Manolo Blahnik
Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time". -- Madonna Ciccone
Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts. -- Jimmy Magee
I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe. -- Helena Christensen
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed -- Romano Prodi
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age. -- Brady Corbet
One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris. -- Danny Meyer
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. -- Isadora Duncan
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first. -- Jacques Pepin
That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last. -- Joss Whedon
Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever. -- Theophilus London
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There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." -- Edwidge Danticat
You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita -- Laurell K. Hamilton
If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers. -- Pauline Marois
As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. -- Chris Daughtry
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. -- Werner Herzog
Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. -- Stanley Donen
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. -- Michel Houellebecq
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. -- Seth Rogen
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow. -- Margot Asquith
I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I -- Talisa Soto
No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. -- Harper Lee
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. -- Milos Forman
The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. -- Sergei Polunin
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. -- Evgeny Morozov
Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. -- Haruki Murakami
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. -- Walter Lippmann
I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader. -- Allister Coetzee
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. -- George Duke
I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today. -- Scott Adkins
I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him. -- Georges St-Pierre
Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths. -- Harold Bloom
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Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds. -- Fred Armisen
I used to be an angry man myself. I'm a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis GassÃ©e) -- Walter Isaacson
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. -- Ryan Lilly
I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day. -- Idris Elba
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. -- Erika Slezak
I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill. -- Chuck Zito
I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style. -- Vincent Cassel
I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up. -- Scott Lynch
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation. -- Catherine Camus
Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe -- Elton John
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock. -- Stanley Clarke
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric. -- Francois Rabelais
Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. -- Alan Alda
It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining. -- Roger Ebert
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor". -- Albert Camus
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed. -- Talib Kweli
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets. -- David Bowie
I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the 'Billie Jean' video. -- Bonnie Tyler
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. -- Victor Hugo
Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created. -- Ellie Kendrick
Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created. -- Ellie Kendrick
My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude. -- Scott Adkins
Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean BÃ©liveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train." -- Wayne Gretzky
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin. -- Robert Shaw
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean. -- Billy Boyd
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. -- Francis Marion Crawford
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well. -- Patrick Stewart
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' -- Billy Boyd
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. -- Helmut Newton
Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come! -- Susan Branch
Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes. -- Catherine Camus
I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.[Referring to Jean La Fontaine's 1994 research paper for the DOH] -- Valerie Sinason
I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now. -- Marilyn Monroe
Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism. -- Rachel Maddow
There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me. -- Linda Grant
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes AndrÃ© Gide. -- Paul Bowles
That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural. -- Louise Penny
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet. -- Denise Duhamel
To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks. -- David Sedaris
I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing. -- Groucho Marx
Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman. -- Scott Lynch
Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space. -- Paul Virilio
I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix. -- Asif Kapadia
She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?" -- Charles Busch
There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus. -- Catherine Camus
The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with. -- Simon Baker
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean. -- Scott Lynch
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics. -- Rachel Maddow
Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing. -- Peter Greenaway
In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva. -- Werner Arber
I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles. -- ASAP Ferg
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism. -- St. Lucia

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