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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
Life


"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
Being


"Every actor wants to direct."
Actor


"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
Tradition


"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception


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


"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
Time


"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age


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


"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."
History
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