Mitzvah Quotes

• 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

  Girl, Bars, Looks

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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

  Growing Up, Mean, Bars

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

  Zach Braff

  Father, Men, Bars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

  James Wolk

  Stars, Rocks, Insane

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• In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

  Dianna Agron

  Moving, School, Years

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• When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Special, United States

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• I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

  Jeremy Piven

  Boys, Men, Bars

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• I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Thinking, Holy Days

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Funeral, Bars, Grew Up

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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  R. L. Stine

  Typewriters, Special, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  Adam Pally

  Strong, Thinking, Discipline

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kids, Funeral

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• I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

  Harpo Marx

  Depressing, Stars, Blow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Emotional, Bars, Wedding Day

  Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.149, JR Books Limited

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Hands, Bars, Compare

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• I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, House, Bars

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• I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Weekend, Feelings, Bars

  "Jesse Eisenberg Feels Like He's Doesn't Really Belong at the Oscars" by Tim Nudd, people.com. February 9, 2011.

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• The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

  Dennis Prager

  Airplane, Blow, Israel

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• When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Eye, Home, Thinking

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Voice, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Happiness

  "JOY: It is a great mitzvah to be happy always!" by Chaim Kramer, www.breslov.org. September 08, 2011.

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• When I wasn’t working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!

  Lea Michele

  Bats, Dresses, Broadway

  "Up Close & Personal With Lea Michele" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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