Etgar Keret Quotes
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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No man may make another free.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
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After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?
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I've been very lucky.
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I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.
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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
