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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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