Serena Williams Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
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I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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We had this thing at Stanford called the 'Campus Loop,' and then we had another run called 'The Dish,' and you'd run up to this giant satellite dish, which was probably extremely unhealthy. I would do those two runs, and I just found it so therapeutic. My girlfriends and I would have these great conversations about guys and school and life.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.
