Matt Groening Quotes

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Guilty

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Power
  • Political
  • Faith

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Trying
  • Jerk
  • Snob

• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
  • Worry
  • Interest
  • Diamond

• So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Looking

• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Today
  • Wish

• Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Billionaires

• A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe