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Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work! (Homer Simpson)
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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
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The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
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America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!
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We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.
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Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
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The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
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I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.
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Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
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I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?
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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.
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I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.
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'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.
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I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.
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How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
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One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
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When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!
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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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