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Theodore Bikel

Quotes

Theodore Bikel

  • You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
  • What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
  • No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
  • I tried for awhile to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
  • I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
  • [on President Reagan's annual budget cuts to the arts] Every profession has its John Wilkes Booth. Ours is Reagan.
  • Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
  • I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.
  • No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
  • There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

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