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.'

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• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
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• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

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• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

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• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

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• 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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• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
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• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
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• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• 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
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• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  

  Foxy Brown
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• 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.

  

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• Now God killed John Lennon and he let Barry Manilow survive,But the good Lord blessed little Adrian Mitchell with the fastest cock alive.

  

  Adrian Mitchell
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• 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.

  

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• Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

  

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• Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

  

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  • Up

• We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'

  

  Dax Shepard
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• I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!

  

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• It's been a big emphasis for us this week. We need to step it up on pass protection because it's a big deal for us.

  

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  • Up
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• 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
  • Long
  • Black
  • Athlete