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I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'
Stefan Sagmeister
Work
Hard Work
Time
Money
Worth
Will
Job
Think
Definitely
See
More
Weekend
Look
Likely
Periods
Same
Hobby
Same Time
While
Really
Engaged
Hard
Forward
Mechanism
Leveling
Career
Need
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
Stefan Sagmeister
Book
Difficult
More
Factories
Bound
Make
Because
Up
Than
Much
Set
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
Stefan Sagmeister
Good
Architecture
Neutrality
Build
Think
Thirties
Kind
Toronto
Good Place
About
Absolutely
Like
Talk
Sure
Very
Place
Interesting
Modernist
Forties
Twenties
Ridiculous
Downtown
By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.
Stefan Sagmeister
Service
Significant
Rarely
Determining
Factor
Importance
Most
Course
Very
Brand
Any
Influence
Interest
Far
Produces
Product
Companies
Company
Amplify
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Stefan Zweig
World
Once
Once More
Horizon
More
Am
Discovering
England
Now
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
Stefan Zweig
Leadership
Enthusiasm
Others
Must
Stimulate
Convince
Convinced
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig
Work
Art
Time
Prevail
Will
Power
Hidden
Locked
Never
Over
Forbidden
Always
Forgotten
Ephemeral
Elemental
Away
Innate
Rejected
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Stefan Zweig
Life
War
Peace
Darkness
Light
Fall
Rise
Only
Truly
Person
Experienced
Who
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Stefan Zweig
History
Mind
Energy
Come
Remote
Course
Spotlight
Person
Often
Decide
Centuries
Presence
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Stefan Zweig
Life
History
Regret
Will
Single
Lost
Back
Thousand
Thousand Years
Something
Recover
Hour
Does
Years
Human
Human Life
Moment
Bring
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
Stefan Zweig
Organization
Unity
Only
Idea
Exists
Brains
Unfortunately
Plan
Jewish
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
Today
Disappointment
Desperation
Impossible
Language
Group
Living
Hopelessness
See
Totally
Misery
Write
Writers
Writes
Make
German
Much
Who
Jew
Jewish
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
Theodore Bikel
Knowledge
Study
Know
Conduit
Epistemology
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
Theodore Bikel
Me
Culture
Arrogance
Pride
Superior
Jewish Culture
Other
Mine
Sectarian
Claim
Neither
Make
Nor
Cultures
Moves
Jewish
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
Book
Jews
Obligatory
Attachment
Study
After
Page
Special
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
Great
Grateful
People
Fear
Omission
Slight
Temptation
Naming
Although
Am
Any
Forgo
Them
Might
Many
Deeply
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
Hope
Respect
Hate
Oppression
World
Way
Liberation
Voice
Gives
Always
Where
Raise
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
Theodore Bikel
Words
Cause
Those
Guitars
Weapons
Make
Common
Common Cause
Prefer
Whose
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
Theodore Bikel
Wish
Would
Would-Be
Vanity
Direct
Only
Like
Done
The Only Thing
Thing
Audiences are audiences.
Theodore Bikel
Audiences
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 wasn't doing.
Theodore Bikel
Work
Beauty
Would
Tried
Hopelessly
Bored
About
Sing
Around
Doing
While
Worker
Stand
Manure
Agricultural
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
Theodore Bikel
You
Stillness
Breath
Something
Audience
Intake
Get
Moving
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
Time
You
Comedy
Live
Films
Later
Months
Draw
Laugh
Come
Know
Always
How
Audiences
Doing
May
Six
Experiences
Working
Your
Vacuum
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Theodore Bikel
Me
Words
Fault
Before
Audience
Fresh
Said
Always
Play
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
Theodore Bikel
Death
Celebrate
Cause
Arab
Arabs
Israel
Celebration
Child
Difference
Children
Deed
Here
Jewish
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
Theodore Bikel
Culture
Field
Jewish Culture
Indeed
Frequently
Am
Artist
Which
Toil
Jewish
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