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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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"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."


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


"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."


"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."


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


"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."
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