Quote by Theodore Bikel
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessl

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

Other quotes by Theodore Bikel

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. – Theodore Bikel

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Art
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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. – Theodore Bikel

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Fear
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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

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Age
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. – Roger Penrose

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Beauty

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. – Judith Jamison

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Beauty

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. Thats where my heart lies. – Mark Burnett

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Beauty

Beauty is a fragile gift. – Ovid

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Beauty

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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

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I believe in education and wish I had a better one. – Loretta Lynn

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Western laziness…. consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues. – Sogyal Rinpoche, Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying

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A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. – Marilyn Monroe

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