“Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.”
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“It's about ethical. It's about leading from the front, and it's kind of hard to look at people and say hey, listen, we need to cut back or it may cost you more money - if you're not willing to do the same thing.”
“I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.”
“Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.”
“We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.”
“Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.”
“Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.”
“A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.”
“People do not die - they kill themselves.”
“Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law”
“It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.”
“The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable”
“I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range...The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.”
“Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.”
“How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.”
“To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.”
“I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.”
“Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.”
“When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.”
“If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.”