Matt Groening Quotes
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
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My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'
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When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
