Venus Williams Quotes
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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You have to open up on stage.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
