Etgar Keret Quotes
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.
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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
