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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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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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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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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 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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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 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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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.
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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