Etgar Keret Quotes
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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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.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
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Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
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Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
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I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
