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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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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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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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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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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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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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