Venus Williams Quotes
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
