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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1955

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I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

Max Cannon

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When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

Simon Bird

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I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

Trombone Shorty

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We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

Ruth Ware

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War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

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No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.

Dominic West

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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

Douglass North

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I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?

Chris Kirkpatrick

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You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

Christopher Nolan

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I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

Cliff Richard

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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Brigitte Bardot

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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

William Robertson Smith

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