Matt Groening Quotes
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
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All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.
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Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.
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Everyone's a little nothing.
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Don't have a cow, man.
