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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
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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