Matthew Weiner Quotes

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• When you think of a teenager, you think of hanging out with friends a lot or going to a full-time school. On the weekends, my friends are staying up until, like, one in the morning, and then there's me fighting to stay up until eight.

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

  

  Niall Ferguson
  • Space
  • Living
  • Killing

• With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Believe
  • Moving
  • Quality

• And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

  

  Matthew Weiner
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