Sheila Heti Quotes

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

Sheila Heti

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
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• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

  

  Rajneesh
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• People love gentle larceny.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
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• My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Job
  • Dare

• It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Time
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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • People

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

  

  Benjamin Graham
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• We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People

• The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

  

  Deepak Chopra
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• Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.

  

  James Carville
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  • Listening

• Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Time
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• Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Solitude

• Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.

  

  Gene Green

• It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.

  

  Jillian Hervey
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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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• You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

  

  John Buchan
  • Earth
  • Wall

• I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying