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"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."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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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."


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


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


"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."


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


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


"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."
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