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" I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over. "

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" Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. "

" Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. "

" You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. "

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" You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. "

" I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background. "

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" There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America. "

" At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history. "

" Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. "

" Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. "

" My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are. "

" Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while. "

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" But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. "

" Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere. "