Etgar Keret Quotes

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

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• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Think
  • Data

• I'm not fashionable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Fashionable

• For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Money
  • Body
  • Start

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Play
  • Fall
  • Find

• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to rest?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Rest

• Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not like merchandize, consumed, &c

  

  James Madison
  • Men

• I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That's why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren't real.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We are not a Party of unbridled, brutal capitalism, and never have been. Although we believe in personal responsibility and personal initiative in business, we are not the political children of the 'laissez-faire' school. We opposed them decade after decade.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Believe
  • Children
  • School

• I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family
  • Nice
  • Door

• Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Good
  • Happy

• Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hand

• I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Search

• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  

  Brett Somers
  • People
  • Singing

• I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Different

• I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

  

  Alexandra Roach
  • House
  • Leaving

• The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Work

• [We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Peace

• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Enemy
  • Brave

• I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Strong
  • Sweet

• The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

  

  Etgar Keret