Venus Williams Quotes
No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
