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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

  

  Frank Rich
  • School
  • History
  • High

• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  

  James Buchan
  • Support
  • Atheist

• So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Faith
  • Action

• If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Universe

• Sebastian Vettel can also learn to be more laid-back. It's never too late to learn. He's got some way to go. He's young and will turn out well. I'm not worried about that. He'll raise the bar ever higher.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Learn
  • Young
  • Worried

• If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Works
  • Prisons
  • Unison

• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

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

  

  Matthew Weiner