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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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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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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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
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The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.
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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.
