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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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