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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.
Theodore Bikel
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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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'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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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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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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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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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