"You cannot please all of the people all……" — Theodore Bikel
"You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else."
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57 Quotes by Theodore Bikel
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by…
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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
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I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that…
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and…
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read,…
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