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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• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• 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 started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Why
  • Myself

• 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

• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Age
  • Cities
  • Destroys

• If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

  

  Susan Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Get

• One doesn’t question a miracle.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • Miracle

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

  

  Matt Groening