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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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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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