Theodore Bikel Quotes

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.

Theodore Bikel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.

Jimmy Chin

BeautyFaithImpossibleEndLearn

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Jocko Willink

ProgressBetterNeverWeaknessesGet

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

John Henry Carver

WorkScienceNewMeasurementForces

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Robin G. Collingwood

LifeScienceManMasterGoingHe

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

Mike Pompeo

LeadershipCharacterI AmHonorYou

I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prestige,' the story for 'Memento.'

Mike Birbiglia

BrotherStoryStrongDarkClassWho

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

Miroslav Vitous

TimeTogetherMeThoughtPersonHim

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Chris Van Allsburg

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I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

Brooks Koepka

FamilyLossLuckyWhereSenseBeen

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Peter Ackroyd

PeopleHouseBuySeemWhoHouses

No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.

Sean Hayes

WellShowWouldHowAboutEver

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

Scott Aukerman

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