Etgar Keret Quotes
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.
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I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself.
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Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?
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His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
