Sheila Heti Quotes
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.
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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.
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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
