Venus Williams Quotes
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.
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No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
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My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.
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The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
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I'm always on the court with my dad.
