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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."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."

"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."
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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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