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Theodore Bikel Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: austrian
Birth: May 2, 1924 - July 21, 2015

Topics

Choose Go Let Go Keep Traditions

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

Path Chosen Constitutional

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

Work Time Creative Value People Me

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.

Home Best School Book Library Loved

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Girl Feel Fat Seeing Double Going

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Trees Grow Growing Now Places Where

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

Me Person Kind Directing Ben

I've been booed off the field, and I've been carried off the field by people cheering me. So I've seen both ends of it, and I can tell you the bad side of it gets a lot more attention than the good side does, but the good side is pretty darned good when it's on your side.

Good People Me Attention You Bad

When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.

I Am Looking Admiration Engagement

I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

Democracy Think America Party Mean

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Culture School Growing Up Think Up

I believe tech should be a core skill of a tech company.

Believe Skill I Believe Company Core

I really only have a few friends.

Friends Only Few Really

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