Serena Williams Quotes

I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.

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• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
  • Find
  • Nuts

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Doubt

• Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • World
  • Health

• It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

  

  Livy
  • Up

• I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Game

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Today
  • Democracy

• If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Immigration

• What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you.

  

  Alex Blumberg
  • Question
  • Makes
  • Good Tape

• I do not mean to discuss the question how far slavery and farming are incompatible. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former.

  

  James Madison
  • Political
  • Question
  • Evil

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Earth
  • Walking
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