#jewish

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eagerness #feed #impress #jewish #like

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#about #being #comedy #complaining #feelings

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#child #history #identified #jewish #lost

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. ↗

— Barack Obama

#christian #christian nation #citizens #consider #great

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#beck #billy #billy joel #blown #blown away

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#anxious #comes #get #guilt #i

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anti-semitism #aware #because #being #existence

As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#blood #brothers #jewish #lackeys #leaders

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#jewish people #me #peace #people #provide