Vidal Sassoon Quotes

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.