Etgar Keret Quotes
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
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There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
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Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
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He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution. – page 120.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
