Bar Mitzvah Quotes

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

  R. L. Stine

  Typewriters, Special, Mitzvah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Mitzvah

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• 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, Mitzvah, 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, Mitzvah, Bars

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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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• 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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• 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, Mitzvah

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

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• My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

  Nat Hentoff

  Parent, Bars, My Family

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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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, Mitzvah, Bars

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

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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 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, Mitzvah

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

  "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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• 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, Mitzvah

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• I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  New York, Israel, Cities

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Mitzvah, Bars, Done

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• Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still mourns the lost filmmaker I'll never be. Working on a documentary is nearly the opposite artistic process to writing: as a writer you are always trying to fill out a world to fit your story, but as a documentarian your work is to carve a story out of the world. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly blocked at my computer, I miss the days when I could just point my camera at something interesting and wait to see what happens.

  Stefan Merrill Block

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

  Artie Lange

  Memories, Kids, Vegas

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• Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Bars, Care

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• 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

  Book, Mitzvah, Bars

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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

  Ilana Glazer

  Mitzvah, Bars, Host

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Army, Years, Bars

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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