God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally "unfit" - like introve...
Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture is international in its brilliance but national in origin...
I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
Mayor Tilman: Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture, and a colored culture. Now, that's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be. Anderson: Rest of America don't see it that way, Mr. Mayor. Sheriff Ray Stucke...
William Somerset: Gentlemen, gentlemen... I'll never understand. All these books, a world of knowledge at your fingertips. What do you do? You play poker all night. Library Guard: Hey! We've got culture! We've got culture comin' out our ass! George, ...
If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
