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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!
Matt Groening
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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Matthew Abram Groening
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Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
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If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.
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I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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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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I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
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Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
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