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 have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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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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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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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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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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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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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
