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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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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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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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
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As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.
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The growing pains of … being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.
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I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.
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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.
