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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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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
Acted
Sang
Played
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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 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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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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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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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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