Serena Williams Quotes
I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
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The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ must be understood as representing no more primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
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I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it.
