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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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