Venus Williams Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Donald Trump has come on a lot and I think one of the hardest parts of my job is digging down beyond their talking points to get them to say something that people actually want to hear rather than what they've come to the interview with, and that is difficult. That's a reporter's challenge.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
