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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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