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"I'm so many people." --Sally Draper #MadMen

"Go bang your head against the wall" -- Betty Draper #MadMen

"I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"The king ordered it!" --Pete Campbell #MadMen

"A lot of great romances start out as friendships." -- Megan Draper #MadMen

"Tell the truth, don’t worry about the outcome. People respect that." -- Peggy Olson #MadMen

“They can’t do what we do, and they hate us for it.” -- Don Draper #MadMen

"Do the work, Don." -- Freddy Rumsen #MadMen

"You’re not an artist, Peggy. You solve problems." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"My generation we drink because it's good. Because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar. Because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do." -- Roger Sterling #MadMen

"Stop counting other people's money" -- Betty Draper #MadMen

"Philanthropy is the gateway to power." --Bert Cooper #MadMen

"Stop barging in here and infecting me with your anxiety." -- Peggy Olson #MadMen

A man is whatever room he is in. -- Bert Cooper #MadMen

"They say you become an alcoholic when you drink alone. I'm trying to avoid that." -- Roger Sterling #MadMen

"It’s a business of sadists and masochists.. and you know which one you are." -- Ida Blankenship #MadMen

"The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone." -- Anna Draper #MadMen

"Am I to entertain your ballad of dissatisfaction or has something actually happened? Because I am at work, dear." -- Lane Pryce #MadMen

"It’s about letting things go so you can get what you want." -- Bert Cooper #MadMen

"Nobody knows what's wrong with themselves, and everyone else can see it right away." -- Stephanie Horton #MadMen

"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern." -- Frank O’Hara’s Mayakovsky, from Meditations in an Emergency #MadMen

"Those people in Manhattan? They are better than us. Because they want things they haven't seen.” -- Peggy Olson #MadMen

"Why does it always have to be like this? Why can't I get anything good all at once?" -- Pete Campbell #MadMen

"They taught us at Barnard about that word, utopia. The Greeks had two meanings for it: "eu-topos," meaning "the good place," and "ou-topos," meaning "the place that cannot be." -- Rachel Menken #MadMen

“At some point, we’ve all parked in the wrong garage.” –- Roger Sterling #MadMen

"The day you sign a client is a day you start to lose them." -- Roger Sterling #MadMen

"Clients come and go, Campbell. Sometimes, it's best to rid them of unrealistic expectations." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"I have a life and it only goes in one direction. Forward." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"That's a very sensitive piece of horseflesh." -- Pete Campbell #MadMen

"Hell's Bells, Trudy!" -- Pete Campbell #MadMen

You are the product. You feel something. That's what sells." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"And I don’t want you to think I’m a quitter. I’ve fought for plenty in my life. That’s how I know when it’s over. It’s not a weakness. It’s been a gift for me. To know when to move on." -- Betty Francis #MadMen

"Mona, I'm drinking my milk right now." -- Roger Sterling #MadMen

"Stable is that step backwards between successful and failing." --Pete Campbell #MadMen

"The clients want to live too, Ted!" -- Pete Campbell #MadMen

“One day you’re there and then all of a sudden, there’s less of you and you wonder where that part went; if it’s living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you’ll get it back and then you realize it’s just gone.” -- Peggy Olson #MadMen

"You’re a very beautiful girl. It’s up to you to be more than that." --Don Draper #MadMen

"Think about it deeply, then forget it, and an idea will jump up in your face." --Don Draper #MadMen

Weiner says the gruesome equipment snafu originated as a family story: His grandfather once ran over his own shoe with a push-reel mower. “His foot was fine,” Weiner confirmed to me, “but it destroyed the shoe.” #MadMen

"People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"You'll die in that corner office, a midlevel executive with a little bit of hair who women go home with out of pity. Want to know why? Because no one will like you." -- Don Draper #MadMen

“You’re gonna need a stronger stomach if you’re going to be in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made” -- Bert Cooper #MadMen

"I love puppies." -- Don Draper #MadMen

"I'd never recommend imitation as a strategy. You'll be second, which is very far from first." — Peggy Olson #MadMen

"You’re never gonna get that corner office until you start treating Don as an equal. And no one will tell you this, but you can’t be a man. Don’t even try. Be a woman. Powerful business when done correctly." -- Bobbie Barrett #MadMen

"Every job has it's ups and downs." -- Hollis #MadMen

"The only thing worse than not getting what you want is someone else getting it" -- Roger Sterling #MadMen