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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. "
Theodore Bikel
Who
Read
Word
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel. "
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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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" '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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" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "
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Interest
" On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. "
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You
Right
" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "
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Arts
General
" There is no role I cannot play except a midget. "
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Except
Midget
" I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. "
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Let Go
Go
Keep
" 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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Choice
Justice
" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "
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I Can
Better
I Am
" Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. "
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Country
Risk
Live
" An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.' "
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Theatre
Knowledge
Life
" Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? "
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Epistemology
Study
Knowledge
" I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other. "
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Actor
Timing
Song
" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "
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Queen
Thing
Surviving
" 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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Action
Us
Endurance
" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "
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Whose
Cause
Common
" 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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Sense
Awe
Us
" 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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You
Exist
" 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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Terrorism
Stop
" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "
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More
Than
Flops
" 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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I Am
" I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. "
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Fighting
I Am
Language
" I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. "
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Work
" I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "
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Better
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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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Time
Exist