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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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 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, 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 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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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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 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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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