Matt Groening Quotes

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Character
  • Truth

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Name
  • Consulting

• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Faith

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Service
  • First
  • National

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Darkness

• I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Life
  • Live
  • Passion

• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Music
  • Soul

• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Serious