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Theodore Bikel

"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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"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 daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

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"If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you."

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"I am born here among the monsters, if I have to survive I must act like one of them."

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"Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."

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"Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree."

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"Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring."

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"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."

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"It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy - you are fucking open to dead."

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"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
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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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"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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"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
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"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."
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