Venus Williams Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.
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Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
