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.Matt Groening
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
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.
Eddie Redmayne -
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
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.
Dana Goodyear -
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
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.
Malcolm Forbes -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison -
Everyone needs help when they try something new.
Zoe Sugg
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Adam Osborne -
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.
Orhan Pamuk -
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
Cameron Russell -
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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Harrison Ford
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It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
Ken Jennings -
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
Eric Metaxas -
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont -
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.
Matt Groening