Venus Williams Quotes
It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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Peace has to be solved equally.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.
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I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
