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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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 a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "

" Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. "

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

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

" We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. "

" 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 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. "

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

" You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. "

" I always sang, I always acted, I always played. "

" If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. "

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

" I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. "

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

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" You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. "