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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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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 prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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 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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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 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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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