Serena Williams Quotes
I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'Serena Williams
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht -
Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek -
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
Karen Hughes -
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom -
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
Gary Lineker -
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
Bear Grylls -
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
Foxy Brown -
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
C. S. Lewis -
I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
Beeban Kidron -
Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.
Keerthy Suresh -
I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Drake Bell -
As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.
Anton du Beke -
I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.
Clara Hughes
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Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver -
Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
Warren Farrell -
I spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250 if you'd like a really nice coffee-table thing.' Everything felt like the right thing to do at the time and then six months later would feel tired. And I would feel tired. So that's one reason for returning to a major label.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
M. K. Hobson -
I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
Serena Williams