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.

Jay McInerney

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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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Long
  • Value
  • Creation

• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Black
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Parent

• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Women
  • Serious