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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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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, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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?
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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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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 prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
Theodore Bikel
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.
Theodore Bikel
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Theodore Bikel
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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