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Matt Groening Quotes

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

Matt Groening

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1954

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You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Joel Salatin

Food People You Civilization Healthy

Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

Power Support Cancer Natural Prevent

Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.

Mayte Garcia

Focus You Find Passionate Something

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

Sophia Loren

Best Chance Thought Interesting Back

I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.

Sturgill Simpson

Weird See Anything Fail Still How

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Tom Conti

People Television Audience Film Get

I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.

Robert Zemeckis

People World Think Brand Tools You

What I've said from the beginning is that I am going to try to help all the vulnerable populations in Afghanistan - and to a certain extent, that's the majority of Afghanistan.

Rula Ghani

Beginning I Am Help Said Try Going

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

Dilip Shanghvi

I Am Attention Comfortable Reason Am

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

Douglas Rushkoff

Music Start Opportunities Decisions

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

Colson Whitehead

Today End Talking You Race Write

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

Allan Dwan

Camera Always Improvisation Certain