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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#age #attachment #book #jews #obligatory

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. ↗

— Bjork

#else #get #i #interested #little

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. ↗

— Epicurus

#i #little #rather #rome #second

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#conquer #guns #hate #live #seems

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

— Theodore Bikel

#breath #get #intake #moving #something

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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#alive #components #could #doubt #fragmented

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#courage #expedition #how #i #i think

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#courtroom #goes #justice #nothing #out

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#audiences #come #comedy #doing #draw

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#i #kid #music #until #wrote