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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Knowledge

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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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.
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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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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.
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