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"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."
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"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."


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