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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
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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 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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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.
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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 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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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