Quotes with jewish

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  • Benjamin Netanyahu In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ariel Sharon Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Alan Dershowitz It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bill Goldberg Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I've certainly broken that stereotype in many ways.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Anita Diamant November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Barack Obama 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
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Ralph Lauren People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
    Ralph Lauren
    American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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