Etgar Keret Quotes
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
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As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
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There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
