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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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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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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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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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