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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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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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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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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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 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 try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
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The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
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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.
