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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Film Actor
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Vienna
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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 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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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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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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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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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 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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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