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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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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
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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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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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