Matt Groening Quotes

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Matt Groening

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ScienceLookingLovedScience Fiction

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Joanna Garcia

GoodMistakesGood FortuneFortune

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

John Boyd Orr

GrowthKnowledgeLawSmallThink

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Jennifer Lopez

LoveGoodMeAlwaysInspiredBrown

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

Ann Nocenti

HistoryMeFatDrawingKindAlways

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Tony Hale

FamilyPathAppreciationMeChoose

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

Michael Moore

JobSparkBuildLineDivisionOff

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

Lucy Powell

CheapWorkforceOverIndustrialEra

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

Diane von Furstenberg

StrengthMotherCourageStyleMyself

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

MyselfManBlackLookHonestThreat

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Clive Sinclair

RoosterRoleFinallyHisOscarJohn

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Anne Archer

BusinessGoOddsMustInstinctEven

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Alfred North Whitehead

PhilosophyWonderProduct

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