A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening
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MATT LAUER A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w... MATT APUZZO I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr... MATT DILLON Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. MATT MULLENWEG Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi... MATT BOMER That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... MATT DAMON Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. MATT DAMON Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl... MATT DAMON I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets... MATT GONZALEZ I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ... MATT KUCHAR It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim. MATT HAIG I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i... MATT HAIG What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in... MATT TAIBBI Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost... MATT RIDLEY I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w... MATT BOMER The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo... MATT MICKIEWICZ If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ... MATT BEVIN 'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is g... MATT BOMER Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. MATT MARTY I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'... MATT KUCHAR Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow... MATT HAIG I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t... MATT DAMON Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t... MATT BELLAMY If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves. MATT LANTER This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ... MATT BEVIN If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th... MATT HAIG I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t... MATT RIDLEY In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d... MATT TAIBBI There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress... MATT MULLENWEG When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn&... MATT MULLENWEG A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ... MATT FORBECK