Etgar Keret Quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
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anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.
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It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound or what it's going to be or if people are going to like it.
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Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
