Matt Groening Quotes

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Process

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • School
  • Friends
  • Song

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I've lived in New York for a really long time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
  • Introduction

• As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Me
  • Proud

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Advocate

• I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • High
  • Team
  • Season

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.

  

  Delta Goodrem

• It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...it is the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • World
  • Freedom
  • King

• I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fashion

• Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

  

  William John Evans
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Why
  • May
  • Soul

• I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Why