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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Matt Groening

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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
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You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
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How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'
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Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
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You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. Homer Simpson
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