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Theodore Bikel

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

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"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
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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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"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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"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
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"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
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"Every actor wants to direct."
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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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"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 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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"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
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