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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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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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