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Matt Groening Quotes

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

Matt Groening

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Education People Saying Solution Get

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

John Buford

Men Patriotism Sacrifice I Am Brave

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Andrew Pyper

Fear Understanding Place Kind Need

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

John de Mol, Jr.

Positive Happiness Opportunity People

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Andrew Motion

Myself Tea Write Two Starting Up

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

Steve Ells

Passion Time Remember Feeling Guilty

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Greenblatt

Father Story Long Line Tell Punch

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Steven Wright

You Monkey Write Like Million Could

What I really wanted to do was take this character and go beneath the veneer of Lucifer. Underneath it all, there was a guy who was a hurt soul and rejected from his father. How that played upon his choices was kind of interesting, but also it's going inside a shell of someone who doesn't know what an emotion is.

Tom Ellis

Father Character Soul Choices Hurt

For the most part, I keep playing big knuckleheads who are like bulls in a china shop.

Rob Riggle

China Big Playing Keep Like Most

I get 'The New Yorker,' and I'm usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, 'Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!' But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.

Jason Jones

Great Time Start Reading Problem

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

Jason Lee

Beach Born Orange California Over

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

Claire Messud

Women Live Culture Anger Face Think