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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
Theodore Bikel
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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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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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.
Theodore Bikel
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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