Matt Groening Quotes
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I always played to win.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.
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I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
