Sheila Heti Quotes
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
J. K. Simmons
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I like to think of myself as classy.
Ieva Laguna
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
P. J. Harvey
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
Sam Donaldson
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
Laura Bell Bundy
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
Naomi Watts
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair
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I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.
Margaret Chan
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The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.
Agnes Martin
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
Mary Douglas
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I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
Chelsea Clinton
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That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.
Brooke Ellison
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
John Zimmer
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There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
Sheila Heti