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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
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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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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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 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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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