Maria Semple Quotes

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

Maria Semple

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TimeMenMadAlwaysUpRoom

I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this game on top from a legacy and financial standpoint.

Andre Ward

MeLegacyGameFinancialTalkTop

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

Andy Roddick

WinWantSpecialSecretFraternity

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Michael Fassbender

TimeMomentStopKnowThreeWant

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

Amy Adams

WorkDreamsGirlChildhoodWorld

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

Stephen Hawking

ChangeOpportunityGreatResearch

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Tom Petty

SuccessYouRentSomethingFarLike

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

Robin Zander

ThoughtAlwaysIllinoisInternational

We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

Michael Specter

BrainThreeSameCellsOwnTen

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Luc de Clapiers

MenPeopleFeelEnoughSometimes

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

Arthur Capper

WorkChangeFuturePeopleRoadDone

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

Anne Hathaway

LifeCelebrateWeddingImportant

I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.

Wyatt Cenac

DailyMyselfYourselfThinkTalking

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