Matt Groening Quotes

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

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• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Home
  • Go

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Big
  • Ups And Downs
  • Moody

• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Empty
  • Farmer
  • Barn

• The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Baseball

• It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Time
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Natural
  • Kitten

• It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • May

• I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Real