Don Draper Quotes

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are. ~ Don Draper

I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been ~ Matthew Weiner

I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character. ~ Adam McKay

Our worst fears lie in anticipation. ~ Don Draper

What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions. ~ Jerry Della Femina

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper. ~ George Lois

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. ~ Jon Hamm

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads. ~ Jonah Peretti

Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved. ~ Don Draper

Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face. ~ Don Draper

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. ~ Don King

If you want to heal your heart surround yourself with people that won't tell you hating other people is how you get over being hurt. Surround yourself with people that will tell you to be more like Christ and reach out to those you don't understand or are offended by. Bitter insecure and anxious people will tell you everything you need to hear to help you move on, but very little of it will be the true teachings of Christ. ~ Shannon L. Alder

War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death. ~ Terry Goodkind

What people discard could make a nation ~ Don DeLillo

I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years. ~ Mick Jagger

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death. ~ Don Ed Hardy

In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote. ~ Lionel Trilling

Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands. ~ Don Kardong

If the animal caught in the trap or by a predator will fight to the last atom of its strength to seek for redemption and to avoid death, why must you give up because of because? Awake and move! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast ~ Jennifer McMahon

Step, fart. Step, fart. Step, fart. ~ Sharon M. Draper

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. ~ Don Marquis

I look at you. i know what you are. you are sloppy-bodied, smelly and wet. a woman who was born to sit trapped in a chair while a man tells her how much she excites him. _Eric Packer ~ Don DeLillo

And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's not that at all. It's diversity, it's something that looks more like the landscape of the country. And it's not about then we get the statues we deserve, it's not that. It's that everyone should be able to participate in this silly contest, which is how I feel about it. ~ Don Cheadle

You can either love," Pablo says, "or you can talk about it. You can't do both. ~ Don Winslow

I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair. ~ Bob Newhart

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker ~ Don Meyer

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. ~ Jim Wallis

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. ~ Don Shula

I have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell ~ Don Marquis

Never give up. You must persist! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children. ~ Mac Barnett

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. ~ John Steinbeck

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount. ~ Don Ward

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means. ~ Michael Gruber

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers. ~ Don Bluth

Keep turning the pages,
go through the changes.
Reach up and reach out
and don`t give in or give up.
Speak up and speak out
and stand up and stand out.
Keep turning the pages,
go through the changes. ~ Francesc Miralles

How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data. ~ Don Aitkin

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. ~ Don McLean

Don't stop believin'. Hold on to the feelin ~ Journey

If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it
and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience. ~ Don Alias

TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walked around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysentric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event. ~ Don DeLillo

I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be? ~ Oprah Winfrey