Venus Williams Quotes
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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Childhood reading is so important.
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I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
