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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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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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