Austrian - Actor | May 2, 1924 - July 21, 2015
I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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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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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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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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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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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
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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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I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.
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I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.
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You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
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