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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

  Ilana Glazer

  Bars, Host, Bar Mitzvah

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• 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

  Bars, Red, Pairs

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• I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  Gloria Steinem

  Graduation, Memorable, Funeral

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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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• I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

  Chris Isaak

  Stars, Children, Party

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• Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

  David Wolpe

  Girl, Growing Up, Thoughtful

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• Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

  Elle Fanning

  Girl, Fun, Bats

  "Elle Fanning Goes To Bar Mitzvahs, Loves Picking Out Clothes" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 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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• I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

  Billy Crystal

  Baseball, Oklahoma, Bars

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• 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

  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.

  Jason Spezza

  Girlfriend, Hard Work, Successful

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