Sheila Heti Quotes

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

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• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dish
  • Vegetable
  • Gujarat

• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religion

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Journey

• The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Job
  • Sea

• Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Done
  • Present
  • Magic

• If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Relationship

• Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Black
  • Shoes

• You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

  

  Brande Roderick
  • Business
  • Career
  • Proud

• I like to play strong women because there is so much emotion to bring to these roles.

  

  Albina Shagimuratova
  • Women
  • Strong

• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Sarcastic

• I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • People
  • Music

• I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• One of the best decisions I ever made was getting a dog.

  

  Katie Stevens
  • Dog

• I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

  

  Marcus Rashford

• I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Bridge
  • Worldview
  • Homage

• Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Different
  • Communication

• I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Night
  • Commitment
  • Week

• Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

  

  Sheila Heti