Theodore Bikel Quotes

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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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  Hate, Voice, Giving

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• I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

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  Guitar, Weapons, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

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  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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  Art, Past, Heirlooms

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• No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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  Unity, Doubt, Declaration

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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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  Song, Rights

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• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

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  Strong, Humility, Justice

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• Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

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  Study, Epistemology, Knows

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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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  Certain, Compassionate, Obligation

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• One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

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  World, Might, Way

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• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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  Equality, Causes, Humans

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• I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

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  Israel, Critics, Zionist

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• I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

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  Fighting, Giving, Determined

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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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  Integrity, Exercise, Facts

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• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

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  Song, Art, Play

  “Theodore Bikel, 'Fiddler on the Roof' Star, Dies at 91” by Duane Byrge , Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 21, 2015.

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• I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

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  Responsibility, Speaks Out, Voice

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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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  Moving, Pride, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Fear, Giving, Wonder

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• We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

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  Hate, Gun, Tasks

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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.

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  Order, Mixtures, Needs

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• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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  Bored, Hopeless, Workers

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• You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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  Laughing, Vacuums, Six Months

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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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  Book, Attachment, Yellow

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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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  Grateful, Omission, People

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

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  Character, Directors, Doe

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