Matt Groening Quotes
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
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There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief...
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The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
