Etgar Keret Quotes
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.
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We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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I'm an advocate for alternative proteins, and I believe we can eat many.
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I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
