Sheila Heti Quotes

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

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• I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Amazing
  • London
  • Milan

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Country
  • Found
  • Fantastic

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Answers

• Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • House
  • Singing

• The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Religion
  • Nothing
  • Fatal

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Wife

• Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Night
  • Value

• Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Live
  • Philosophy

• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • Money
  • City

• It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

  

  Doris Day
  • Dog
  • Silent
  • Troubled

• To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • Alcohol

• All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Men
  • Earth

• There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Night
  • Kind
  • Parent

• Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Parent
  • Circumstances
  • Caring

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Parent
  • Scientist
  • Raised