Venus Williams Quotes
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
