Serena Williams Quotes
I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.
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I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.
