Serena Williams Quotes

If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

Serena Williams

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• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Discrimination

• Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Envy
  • Bond

• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Grow

• How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • You
  • Own
  • My Own

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Simple
  • Desert

• All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Space

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Hunting
  • Legal

• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Work

• A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Law

• When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Slavery

• My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.

  

  Neymar
  • Time
  • School

• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  

  Dr. Seuss

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Winning
  • Race

• Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Start

• If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Winning
  • Drama
  • Bored