Mitzvah famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.
-- America Ferrera -
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
-- Betsey Johnson -
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
-- Billy Crystal -
Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
-- Carey Mulligan -
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
-- Cory Doctorow -
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
-- Jeremy Piven -
I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.
-- Maureen Lipman -
It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
-- Vanessa Bayer -
I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could follow me at my bar-mitzvah. It was over when I was done.
-- Andy Kindler -
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
-- Hayden Schlossberg -
I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.
-- Ilana Glazer -
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.
-- Simon Rich -
I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came.But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.
-- Trevor Noah