Matt Groening Quotes

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
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• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • People
  • Dress
  • Observation

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort

• We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Ready
  • Event

• My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Start
  • Now
  • Rise

• Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God
  • Perfect

• I was not intimidated by Kessler's record.

  

  Andre Ward

• In the denial of disorder there is order.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mean

• The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Comedy