Venus Williams Quotes
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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I like music a lot.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
