Mad Men Quotes

• It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Mad, Episodes

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Country, Children, Gun

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 12

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• They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

  Khalil Gibran

  Money, Thinking, Mad

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Easter

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Men, Tv Shows, Mad

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• If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

  Ben Feldman

  Men, Mad, Looks

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Class, Two

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

  Salvador Dali

  Wise, Wine, Men

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• Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

  Max Ernst

  Art, Men, Mirrors

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• We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Men, Indulge In

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• One never knows how loyalty is born.

  Robert Morse

  Loyalty, Born, Madmen

  "Fictional character: Bertram Cooper". TV Series "Mad Men" ("Nixon vs. Kennedy", 2007), www.imdb.com. (2007–2015).

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• In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.

  Sarah Drew

  Men, Mad, Watches

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• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  Rich Sommer

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

  John Slattery

  Men, Mad, Advice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  Chris Matthews

  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Mother, Song, Brother

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• I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.

  Julius Nyerere

  Men, Mad, Here And There

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• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  David Nasaw

  Men, Mad, Idiot

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• What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.

  Kurt Sutter

  Beautiful, Writing, Men

  "Kurt Sutter Reflects On ‘Mad Men’ Controversy: Beef Was With AMC, Not Matt Weiner". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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