Venus Williams Quotes
Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
Camille Paglia
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field
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Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
Fat Joe
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
Rakul Preet Singh
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
Barry Larkin
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
Kaitlin Olson
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
Tatiana de Rosnay
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
Naveen Jain
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
Walter Payton
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
Laura Harrier
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
Banks
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.
Cheryl Tiegs
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If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.
Nelly Furtado
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When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.
Charles E. Wilson
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I've been extremely lucky in my career, in terms of artists and colorists I've been able to work with, and I think 'Helheim' is a perfect example of that look playing out perfectly.
Cullen Bunn
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
Venus Williams