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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
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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