Matt Groening Quotes
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I have always loathed working out.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.
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In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.