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.
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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.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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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.
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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.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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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.
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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.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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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.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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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.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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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.'
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I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.
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If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
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All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
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Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
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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.
