Quote

Being Jewish is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

Gene Weingarten

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
Columnist
Editor
Journalist
Newspaper Editor
Writer
New York City
New York
Religiously
Culturally
Jewish
Stronger
Way

More quotes by Gene Weingarten

Image
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
Gene Weingarten
Image
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!
Gene Weingarten
Image
The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.
Gene Weingarten
Image
It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.
Gene Weingarten
Image
The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.
Gene Weingarten
Image
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.
Gene Weingarten
Image
The verb Garland should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.
Gene Weingarten
Image
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.
Gene Weingarten