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"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."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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