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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
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Sang
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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 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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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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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