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“Is that what you want, or is that what people expect of you?”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Good News
Tagged: Want, Questions, Expectations
“Fear stimulates my imagination.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tagged: Fear, stimulates, Imagination
“Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 3: Love Among the Ruins
Tagged: Change, Good, Bad, Simple
“Don’t wake me up and throw your failures in my face.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 5: Dark Shadows
Tagged: throw, Failures, face, Warning, Do Not
“I’ve never heard of him.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Tagged: never, Heard, unknown, not famous
“Bud: When you think about it, it won't bring her back. She's in the water. With father.

Pete: She loved the sea.”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Loving The Sea, Dead In The Ocean
“Ted: Someday you'll be glad I made this decision.

Peggy: We'll aren't you lucky. To have decisions.”
— Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Decisions
“Well, you know what they say about Detroit. It's all fun and games till they shoot you in the face.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Detroit, Murder
“I know you're all feeling the darkness here today. But there's no reason to give in. No matter what you've heard, this process will not take years. In my heart, I know we cannot be defeated, because there is an answer that will open the door. There is a way around this system. This is a test of our patience and commitment. One great idea can win someone over.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 6: The Crash
Tagged: Darkness, Persistence, Patience, Commitment
“It's my job to take them to dinner at 80 miles an hour. It's my job to stop a mile from the restaurant so they can have five pounds of crab legs and three bottles of beer apiece and then go get prime rib. It's my job to go hunting so they can fire off their guns an inch from my ear and laugh when I get startled because It's. My. Job.”
— Ken Cosgrove, Mad Men, Season 6: The Crash
Tagged: Job, Entertainment, Crab Legs
“My mother wore a girdle all the time and she always had a stomachache and I always thought, 'You'd rather have a stomachache just so dad will like you?'”
— Sandy Schmidt, Mad Men, Season 6: The Doorway
Tagged: girdle, Stomachache, Women's Clothes
“Meet me in Africa.”
— Glen Bishop, Mad Men, Season 5: Commissions and Fees
Tagged: Africa
“Sally: How'd they get all these animals?

Glen: Teddy Roosevelt killed them.

Sally: Do you think they were a family?

Glen: I hope so. Otherwise what were they doing? Walking around saying, 'We just need a baby to finish this diorama?'”
— Sally Draper, Mad Men, Season 5: Commissions and Fees
Tagged: museum, Animals, Teddy Roosevelt, Diorama
“Am I the only one who can work and drink at the same time?”
— Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Season 5: Dark Shadows
Tagged: Working, Drinking
“Jane wanted a baby but I thought, 'Why do that to somebody?'”
— Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, Season 5: Lady Lazarus
Tagged: Childbirth, Anti-Natalist
“Sometimes we don't get to choose where our talents lie.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 5: Lady Lazarus
Tagged: Talents, Passive Aggressive
“I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: Love Among the Ruins
Tagged: Be yourself, insults
“She doesn't care what the truth is. As long as I do what she says.”
— Sally Draper, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: Blowing Smoke
Tagged: obedience, Truth
“Can someone please get my wife out of the kitchen? I have something very nice to say about her.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: The Grown-Ups
Tagged: Nice, Saying Something Nice
“Well, he knows how to leave a room.”
— Danny Farrell, Mad Men, Season 3: The Color Blue
Tagged: Exits
“Paul Kinsey: He might lose his foot.

Roger: Right when he got it in the door.”
— Paul Kinsey, Mad Men, Season 3: Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency
Tagged: Advancement
“Dying doesn't make you whole. You should see what you look like.”
— Private Dinkins, Mad Men, Season 6: The Better Half
Tagged: Death
“Ginsberg: I feel bad for you.

Don: I don't think about you at all.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 5: Dark Shadows
Tagged: Indifference
“I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things.”
— Faye Miller, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: Tomorrowland
Tagged: Beginnings, Endings
“Get out of here, all of you. Go chase a hearse.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Beautiful Girls
Tagged: Ambulance Chasers
“She died like she lived. Surrounded by the people she answered phones for.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Beautiful Girls
Tagged: Secretaries
“Trudy: Have you been drinking?

Pete: The whole country's drinking!”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 3: The Grown-Ups
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking, JFK Assassination
“The truth is people may see things differently, but they don't really want to.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 3: Wee Small Hours
Tagged: Perception, Disagreement
“Sally: I'm sorry I broke your suitcase.

Don: Find out how much it is to repair and it will come out of your allowance.

Sally: I don't have an allowance.

Don: Then don't break things.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 3: Out of Town
Tagged: Allowance, Breaking Things, Responsibility
“Help yourself...not the Stoli.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: Out of Town
Tagged: Alcoholism, Stoli, Self-Help
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