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.
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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.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Life is about timing.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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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.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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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.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
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Anybody can be a bum; all it takes is the right girl, the right bar and the right friends, and you are well… your buddies will see you off. They'll christen your dumpster for you.
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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.
