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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
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Musician
Politician
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Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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'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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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