Serena Williams Quotes

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• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Comedian

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

  

  Larry King
  • Famous
  • Being
  • Being Famous

• I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Person
  • Underwear

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Journey
  • Communication

• All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

  

  Dario Argento
  • She
  • Beginning
  • Daughter

• You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.

  

  Donald Cerrone

• There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Heaven
  • Disaster
  • Area

• One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Work
  • Kids

• Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Success
  • Listening

• Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Dream
  • Sleeper