Matthew Weiner Quotes
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
Parker Posey -
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
A. R. Ammons -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius -
As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
Maggie Hassan -
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld -
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher -
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
Jack Nicholson -
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff -
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
Wendy O. Williams
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Edmund White -
There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
Valerie Azlynn -
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
Yeardley Smith -
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
Larry Kramer -
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Harold S. Geneen
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
Finn Jones -
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube -
I think it's too soon to say that, and I think, basically - most of the people that I ran across and most of the studies that I saw suggest people don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy food. They go to eat fries and cheeseburgers.
Michael Specter -
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Matthew Weiner