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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
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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 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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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