Etgar Keret Quotes
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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We're going to go with two kickers until John is healthy, and then we'll make a decision, ... We are thin at some other positions, but we don't have a choice at this point.
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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The Bookshop has a thousand books,
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Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
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If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
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Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
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I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
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I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.
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The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever.
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The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
