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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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