Serena Williams Quotes
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.
