Matthew Weiner Quotes
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.Matthew Weiner
Quotes to Explore
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
Maluma -
I just don't think men fancy me.
Gail Porter
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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 -
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 -
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 -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
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 -
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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 -
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 -
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai -
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 -
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
Jacki Weaver -
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
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I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
Mario Cantone -
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
R. J. Palacio -
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
Ed Pastor -
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
Amiri Baraka -
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde -
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
Matthew Weiner