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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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Vienna
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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 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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