Matthew Weiner Quotes

I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

Matthew Weiner

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• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

  B. B. King
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Anybody

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• I fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Myself
  • Dressing
  • Fell

• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Romania

• I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Take
  • Where

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Vote
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Today

• Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Fearless

• November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Energy
  • Waiting

• My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Vulnerability

• I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Are we all unhappy with our true selves, and likes and follows are what give us value?

  

  Benny Cassette
  • True
  • Value

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

  

  Craig Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

  

  Matthew Weiner