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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.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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Audiences are audiences.
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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 determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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