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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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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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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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.
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I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.
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By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!
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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.
