Etgar Keret Quotes
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
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In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
