Venus Williams Quotes
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
Quotes to Explore
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I love working in New York.
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Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
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I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
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How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
