Matt Groening Quotes

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

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• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Television

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Look
  • Chicago
  • Arizona

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Together

• It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • May
  • Change

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Pretty
  • Choice
  • New York

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Day
  • Weapons
  • One Day

• When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Men
  • Game
  • Simple

• I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Believe
  • Single
  • Strength

• If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Gun

• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Moral

• What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Gun