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Theodore Bikel Quotes

Austrian - Actor | May 2, 1924 - July 21, 2015

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Tradition You Need Order Exist

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Choose Go Let Go Keep Traditions

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Moving Stillness You Breath Audience

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.

Fear Great Grateful I Am People

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Memories Soul Action Battle Hunger

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Knowledge Know Study Epistemology

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Strength Power Justice Strong Choice

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.

History Art Painting World Song

There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

Play Cannot Role Except Midget

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

Integrity Glory Human Talents Degree

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Tired Believe Retirement Within Word

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Peace City Mind Serious Side Israel

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