Sheila Heti Quotes

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
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• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
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• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
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• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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  • Destruction
  • Ecstasy

• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • True
  • Religion

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
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• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
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• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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  • India
  • Partners

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
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  • Inevitable

• The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

  

  Jack Keane
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• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Great
  • Light
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• I became obsessed with watching YouTube videos with kettlebells and chin-up bars, Pilates. Built it up to five days a week training, then pole-dancing.

  

  Jacqui Ainsley
  • Up
  • Training

• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
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• I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Problem

• I can't just go to McDonald's after I'm done working out. I'm going to treat my body like it's the only body I'm ever going to have. I'm going to make sure it's strong and it's good. I'm really going to work hard every single day.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Individual