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
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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.

  

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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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• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

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• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Women are complicated. We all know that.

  

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

  

  Orlando Bloom
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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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• I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

  

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

  

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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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• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Change
  • Health
  • Moral

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

  

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• There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

  

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• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  

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• I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over that whole, "That's Elijah Wood - Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings." I was a mega fan of that. I went to the all-day screenings of the director's cut, where you could see the really long versions of all three movies, in one day.

  

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• The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.

  

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• Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

  

  Epictetus
  • Goals
  • Opinions
  • Distract

• 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