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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Musician
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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