Etgar Keret Quotes
I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
