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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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'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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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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.
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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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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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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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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.
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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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