Avital Quotes

#1. Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Avital Ronell

#2. Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Avital Ronell

#3. My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Mili Avital

#4. It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Mili Avital

#5. To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Avital Ronell

#6. Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Michel De Montaigne

#7. Among the other things I've learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much.

Avital Norman Nathman

#8. Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Avital Ronell

#9. Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

Avital Ronell

#10. I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

Mili Avital

#11. I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mili Avital

#12. Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.

Keri Arthur

#13. 80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.

Roger Black

#14. I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn't want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.

Mili Avital

#15. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

Ernest L. Boyer

#16. No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

William Gilmore Simms

#17. I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

Mili Avital

#18. I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Mili Avital