Etgar Keret Quotes
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Sometimes I'll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hydrogen mask. It's an easy one, and it's supposed to soothe and relax your skin.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
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I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
