Theodore Bikel

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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

— Theodore Bikel

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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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