Famous Theodore Bikel Quotes

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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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 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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I tried for a while 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.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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.
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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.
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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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