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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
Musician
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Vienna
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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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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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 prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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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 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 learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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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 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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