Matt Groening Quotes

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Matt Groening

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• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Sound
  • New York
  • London

• I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Competition

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Risk

• I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Regret
  • Wonderful
  • Minute

• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Government

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Way
  • Fans

• Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Together
  • Best
  • Training

• In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Opportunities
  • Australia

• Attempting to be a people pleaser is a fruitless task so, fuck it.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People

• My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Inspiration
  • Poetic
  • Objection

• He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Dark

• I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.

  

  Chevy Chase

• Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

  

  Laurieann Gibson

• I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

  

  John Cho

• Well, all those people, they think they've got it made,But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or tradeAnything I have to be like one of them.I'd rather start all over again.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People

• One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Pain
  • Adversity
  • Surprise

• In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Idiot
  • NBC

• Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

  

  Matt Groening