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
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• 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

• 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 reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Nature
  • Facts
  • Economic

• Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Experience
  • Facts
  • Substance

• As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Remember
  • Moon
  • Facts

• What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Pack

• There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

  

  Frankie Grande
  • Environment
  • Accept
  • Who You Are

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

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Facts
  • Generations