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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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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.
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