Matt Groening Quotes
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.
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Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'