Venus Williams Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.
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Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.
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If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
