Etgar Keret Quotes

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

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• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Facts
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Facts
  • Intelligence
  • Debate

• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • True
  • Always
  • Facts

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Time
  • Long
  • Man

• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Perfect
  • Crazy
  • Regret

• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Information

• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  

  Kanye West
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Facts

• Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Trying
  • Facts
  • Succeed

• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Heart
  • Facts
  • Shy

• I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Work
  • Real
  • Love

• There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

  

  Don McLean
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Space

• If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Facts
  • Realizing

• A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Tax

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Together
  • Ancient
  • Fats

• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Facts
  • Generations