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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
"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?"
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
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