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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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Vienna
Austria
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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 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 filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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'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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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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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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