Venus Williams Quotes
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore you have to walk around as a refugee from that crisis situation for the rest of your life, forever bearing the burden of that experience then that will be YOUR life.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.
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I find both yoga and pilates awesome at calming my mind and strengthening my body.
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Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.
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In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.
