Jay McInerney Quotes
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I'm a slow starter.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
