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I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

George Meyer

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George Meyer
Age: 54
Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pennsylvania
United States
George A. Meyer
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I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
George Meyer
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I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.
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I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.
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There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
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I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
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I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
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I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
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As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
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Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
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I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.
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If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good
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I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.
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I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
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I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
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I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
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I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
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Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
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Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.
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