Etgar Keret Quotes
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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I love 70's music.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
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I talk too much.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
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I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
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No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.
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Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
