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Theodore Bikel Inspirational Quotes (44)

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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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.
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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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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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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 prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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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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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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