Serena Williams Quotes

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• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • College
  • Baseball
  • Finish

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

  

  Randy Falco
  • World
  • Reality
  • Taken

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Teacher

• The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • May
  • Book

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • World
  • Me
  • Mood

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Death

• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • World
  • Women
  • Black

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Support