Matt Groening Quotes
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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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've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
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I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
