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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.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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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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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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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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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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