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.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• 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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Office

• 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!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• 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.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Think
  • You
  • Change

• 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
  • Good
  • History
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mindset

• As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • Believe
  • Reading

• My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

  

  John Dryden
  • Nature
  • Bold

• As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Help
  • Eyes

• It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Time
  • Parents