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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Career
  • Taken
  • Enough

• Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Powerful
  • Voice
  • Washington

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated

• 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.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Want
  • Me
  • Son

• My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dogs

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Image
  • Interests
  • Protecting

• I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Modern
  • Alice
  • Wonderland

• 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.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kids
  • War

• 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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Growth

• Ernest Mtunzi, Former UK Representative of Joshua Nkomo.

  

  Ian Smith

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Soul
  • Moral

• I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Coffee

• You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Energy

• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Television
  • Drug
  • Excellence

• My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • Goal
  • Be Yourself

• That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

  

  Jay McInerney