Venus Williams Quotes
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I love to just work with new people in general. It's always really fun.
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
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I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
