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"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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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"The beauty of truth is in its simplicity."
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"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."

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."

"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."

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."

"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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