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.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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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.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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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.
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Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.
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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
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Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.
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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.
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I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
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Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
