Etgar Keret Quotes
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
