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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.
Theodore Bikel
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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
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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'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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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