Matt Groening Quotes
If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
-
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
-
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
-
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
-
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
-
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
-
I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
-
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
-
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
-
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
-
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
-
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
-
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
-
I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'
-
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
-
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
-
Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
-
God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
-
If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.
