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At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.

I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.

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If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.

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Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

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The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.

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Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.

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In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.

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Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

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The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

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I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.

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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

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I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

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The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

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Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

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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.

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If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.

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People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.

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I invented myself.

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The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.

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I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

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'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

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I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

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It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

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There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

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If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

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'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.

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Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

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By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

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You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

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Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

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I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

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I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.

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A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

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What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

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