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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
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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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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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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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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 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 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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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