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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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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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've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.
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Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.
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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.
