Venus Williams Quotes
I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
