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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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