Quotes About Culture

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.

The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's happened to the grand dream of Zionism?' I don't like to see ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. What's wrong with Manchester?

The Jews are always up for a laugh.

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

Not many people like Johannesburg, but I love the place.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: 'What is the history behind this club?'