Matt Groening Quotes

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• I'm a good driver.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Good
  • Driver

• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Mind
  • Free

• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Reading

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Day
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• My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

  

  Naima Adedapo
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• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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  • American
  • Nice

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
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• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

  

  Eden Hazard
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  • Freedom
  • Space

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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  • Music
  • Career

• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Human

• People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

  

  Bob Iger
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• It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
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  • America

• Talent is obviously very important, but it's also about how you approach the work and, you know, maybe this is a Canadian thing, but it's good to be nice.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
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  • Work
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• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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• I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

  

  John Stumpf
  • Kitchen

• I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

  

  Matt Groening
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