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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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