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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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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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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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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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