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
  • Team

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

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

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

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• 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
  • World
  • Best
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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
  • Hope
  • Day

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

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

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Living
  • 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
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

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

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
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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
  • Time
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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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• I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Gun
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• Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.

  

  James Stephens
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Rest

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

  

  Jim Thome
  • Guy

• I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Play
  • Smile
  • Motivational

• 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
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