Jay McInerney Quotes
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
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I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.
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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
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New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.
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The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
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I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
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When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.
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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
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You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
