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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
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When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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