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" After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. "

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" While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. "

" I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel. "

" You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. "

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" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "

" On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. "

" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "

" There is no role I cannot play except a midget. "

" I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. "

" All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. "

" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "

" Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. "

" An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.' "

" Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? "

" I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other. "

" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "

" By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. "

" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "

" I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. "

" You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. "

" One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way. "

" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "

" Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. "

" I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. "

" I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. "

" I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "

" No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. "