Matt Groening Quotes

'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

Matt Groening

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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thought
  • Year
  • Corruption

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Real
  • Power
  • Win

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Success
  • Political
  • Creativity

• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • History
  • Think
  • Success

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Success
  • Jealousy

• 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Nature
  • Lost

• Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.

  Biz Stone
  • Up
  • Success
  • Culture

• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Attitude

• I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Why
  • Today

• 'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Success