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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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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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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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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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