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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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do 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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I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.
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I had a stunt double for 'The Bronze.' She's literally the most amazing human being I've ever seen. She's NCAA women's gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.
