Etgar Keret Quotes

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

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• Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Person
  • Harmonious
  • Vibrating

• Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Nice
  • Tree

• The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Suffering

• I wanted to make sure they all knew that I apologized, ... that I just fell asleep. That was me, not thinking about the situation in the game.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Situation

• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Citizens
  • Injustice

• If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Affectation
  • Conceals

• Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Three

• Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

  

  Homer
  • Son
  • Fake
  • Don't Want

• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Impression
  • False
  • Vulgar

• Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Individual
  • Introduce

• I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Years
  • Tough
  • Moved

• You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moments

• When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.

  

  William Bell
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • Records

• That's my boy, Obama. I'm rocking with him until the end, 'til the wheels fall off.

  

  Takeoff
  • Fall
  • Wheels
  • Rocking

• You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

  

  Etgar Keret
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