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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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'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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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