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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.

Theodore Bikel

Travel

World

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

Theodore Bikel

World

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

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

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Knowledge

Study

Every actor wants to direct.

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Actor

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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Life

Principles

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.

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

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

Wonder

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

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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God

Purpose

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

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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God

Obligation