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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • True

• I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build profits at the store level, and we build more stores. The first two things go in tandem, of course. It's pretty tough to build profits without sales.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Pretty
  • Sales

• A guy that's going to do all of the dirty work, that guy that is willing to defend anyone and do the little things and not really care about all of that other stuff. I think every championship team needs that.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Team

• Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.

  

  Bryan Callen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Sometimes it's a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That's not what I see when I look in the mirror!

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Up
  • Done
  • Perfect

• My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.

  

  Burning Spear
  • People
  • Live
  • Bad

• I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins

• I'm always designing for that sort of dressed-up woman who likes to go to different occasions, who's career focused, but she entertains in the evening... a very sophisticated-feeling working woman who likes to have fun.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Up
  • Different
  • She

• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Dream
  • Star
  • Monster

• Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?

  

  David Rosenfelt
  • Running
  • Expression
  • Couches

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

  

  Etgar Keret