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I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.
I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.
Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.
I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.
I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.
A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.
Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.
The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'
I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.
The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!
If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.
It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.