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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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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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 people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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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.
