Jay McInerney Quotes
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
T. Boone Pickens -
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader -
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
Barbara Hershey -
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Barbara Olson
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
Rachel Dratch -
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson -
The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
Usher -
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald -
It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.
Jack McDevitt
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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.
Alfred North Whitehead -
No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.
Aldous Huxley -
Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me terrifically, too, Yet, I get a kick out of you.
Cole Porter -
I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
Matt Lauer -
Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
Dave Ramsey
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman -
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
Thomas Carlyle -
There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.
Danny Gokey -
Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle -
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
Jay McInerney