David Baddiel > Quotes

“he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.”
― David Baddiel, Head Kid

“Jews, therefore, as far as progressives are concerned, don’t represent anything outside of themselves. No victory is claimed by championing their experience, and this leads to a subtle—and unconscious—exclusion.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“above.”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“Jeremy, Teremy, Meremy, Heremy, Queremy, Smellemy, Sea Anemone and Dave.”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“One’s Jewishness, just like one’s skin color, is an accident of birth, and as far as the racists are concerned—and they, sadly, are the people that matter as far as racism goes—you can never lose either.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really”
― David Baddiel, Birthday Boy

“IT’S GOING TO GET SALT-AND-PEPPERED! AND … KETCHUP’D!!!”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“getting their bottom on the ceiling to plop upside down, and so, to get back into the moment, he repeated,”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“This has the effect, paradoxically, and despite all the noise around the issue, of making Jews – the real individuals caught in the cross-fire, that is – feel that they count even less than they did at the start. As, for example, a progressive Jew who might support the attempt to rid the Labour Party of antisemitic elements, it makes you feel like your reality doesn’t figure in this fight at all. It makes you feel, in fact, like the people that are being fought about aren’t you at all.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“Strictly Come Dancing”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“Dick”
― David Baddiel, Birthday Boy

“Your son having to have a poo-team,” said Mrs Stokes. “I’ve never heard of that before in such a young person. So, where are they? How many people normally help him go to the toilet?”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“This is at the very heart of Hadley Freeman, the Guardian writer’s anger and hurt. Progressive Jews, Jews who would never want in any way to minimize the struggle of other minorities, are cowed from talking about their sense of not being cared for by their own comrades because of this. They feel cast out and alienated from their spiritual home, and they can’t even express that for fear of being accused of racism.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“Unfortunately, the separation of antisemitism from racism also creates for some a sense that it is a different thing entirely.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“video-calling”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“fear of his little sister’s safety. “Don’t go too near the water!” Ruby stood up. She was, in fact, standing right by the water. In quite a lot of mud. “I’m just trying to catch— Oh!” she said. She’d been about to say – and this may be obvious – “Spock”. She’d been leaning over the river, trying to catch Spock.”
― David Baddiel, Birthday Boy

“Yaahs!” said Lord Rader-Wellorff, sticking his head out of the roof too. “Oh, that’s better,” said Peevish, whose head appeared last, as he groaned with relief and tried, in the small space left in the roof rectangle, to stretch his lower back.”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant. You have to listen to the people being talked about rather than the talker – and the power, throughout history, has tended to be with the talker, the person with the platform, rather than the talked-about, who are usually the ones affected.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“wasn’t sure how to take this. “But … you’re meant to bring me my tea. Then, in the”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“Dad?” said Barry. “We’re going home too. We’ll follow them.” “Right,” said Barry, confused. The house was a long way away.”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“The sentiment might sound virtuous and true, but really it’s just an attempt to widen the focus of the debate so as to lose the specificity of black concerns.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“of a munchkin. And it took her so long to walk up the drive that, by the time she was actually inside the house, Alfie wondered if it was too late for his parents to go out.”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“of a munchkin. And it took her so long to walk up the drive that, by the time she was actually inside the house, Alfie wondered if it was too late for his parents to go out. How on earth, he thought, is she going to look after me? And, more importantly, make sure I get through all my routines? The”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant. You have to listen to the people being talked about rather than the talker—and the power, throughout history, has tended to be with the talker, the person with the platform, rather than the talked-about, who are usually the ones affected.”
― David Baddiel, Jews Don't Count

“shinai”
― David Baddiel, The Person Controller

“We have to know what’s meant”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“New Zealand HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited P.O.”
― David Baddiel, The Parent Agency

“9.35pm”
― David Baddiel, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

“For the ancients, God was useful to explain away things they didn't understand: storms, earthquakes, why crops didn't grow, disease. I would say the instinct is the same now that we do understand those things. We know what causes them.”
― David Baddiel, The God Desire