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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
Austria
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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Audiences are audiences.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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'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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