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Quote by Theodore Bikel
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares

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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. – Theodore Bikel

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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. – Theodore Bikel

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

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. – Henry Louis Gates

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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

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There is something ghostly in all great art. – Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) [a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo —tεᖇ&#5

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