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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The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
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I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
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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.
