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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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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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
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In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.
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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.
