Venus Williams Quotes
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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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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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
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I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
