Matt Groening Quotes
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
Quotes to Explore
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.
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I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
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With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
