Matthew Weiner Quotes
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
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'Learning organizations' are organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
