Matt Groening Quotes
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I'm not a rapper.
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Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.
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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.