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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
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
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Television Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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'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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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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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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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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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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.
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