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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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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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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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
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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.
