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.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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You've just got to earn my respect.
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My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
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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.
