Venus Williams Quotes
Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.
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'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
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At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
