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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
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Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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 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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'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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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