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Sheila Heti Quotes

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Potential Feel Guilty Living Up Our

I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.

Good Woman Strong Loved Doing Never

Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Things Something Market Soon Stinks

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

Hate People Me Sometimes Things

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Capitalism Think Monster AI I Think

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

Women Time Men Ideas Think Sexy

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

People Free Care Better You Get

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Family Education Good Health People

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

Marriage People Believe Think Legal

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Walls Back Early Inside Spy 1950s

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

Nuno Bettencourt

Music Think Anything Fan I Think

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

Work Family Up Struggling Grew

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