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Sheila Heti Quotes

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 25, 1976

Topics

Anxiety You Through Wear Understood

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Beautiful Guitar Down True Sound Up

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Storm Enough Go Before Around After

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Success Music Proud Black Something

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

Hate Day Monday Fake Holidays You

It's very easy to relate to a kid who is having trouble in high school... less so to relate to a billionaire whose Lamborghini broke down.

School High School Easy Down Trouble

The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.

Robert F. Engle

Change Sunshine Risks Eating Flying

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Roberto Goizueta

Risks Will Always Forever Going

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

Winter Myself Sleep Tired People

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Money Selfish Oppression Others Cost

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Life Family People Story Life Story

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Love Negative Think Flaws Human Us

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Drive You Go Young Kind Way

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