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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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.
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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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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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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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Audiences are audiences.
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