He was worried a small animal might find it and get it stuck in its throat.
MATT DUNSMOOR Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
MATT CAMERON If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
MATT KEMP I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with jus...
MATT KEMP I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, ...
MATT KEMP Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
MATT KEMP If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur...
MATT KEMP We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.
MATT KEMP Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
MATT LAUER It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc...
MATT CAMERON Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f...
MATT CAMERON Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
MATT CAMERON A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard tim...
MATT CAMERON Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship j...
MATT CAMERON I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to ...
MATT CAMERON When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
MATT CAMERON But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'...
MATT CAMERON My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
MATT CAMERON I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
MATT CAMERON I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like t...
MATT CAMERON I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't...
MATT CAMERON I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
MATT CAMERON So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked be...
MATT CAMERON If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
MATT CAMERON Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming a...
MATT CAMERON In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f...
MATT CAMERON I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.
MATT CAMERON I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,...
MATT GROENING The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
MATT BLUNT Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur...
MATT BLUNT If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa...
MATT BLUNT The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le...
MATT BLUNT Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
MATT BLUNT In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec...
MATT BLUNT In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an...
MATT BLUNT The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib...
MATT BLUNT Public education is an investment in our future.
MATT BLUNT With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or...
MATT GROENING Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
MATT GROENING Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
MATT GROENING I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
MATT GROENING People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ...
MATT GROENING I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it...
MATT GROENING Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel...
MATT GROENING I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encou...
MATT GROENING The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
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 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms -...
MATT GROENING I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ...
MATT GROENING 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 Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING 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 I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
MATT GROENING A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ...
MATT FORBECK If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking...
MATT DILLON Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen...
MATT RIDLEY As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would...
MATT RIDLEY Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
MATT BIONDI When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learn...
MATT GROENING I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun
MATT GROENING I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
MATT STONE Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni...
MATT DAMON If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity...
MATT SMITH I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direc...
MATT BERNINGER It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to f...
MATT MULLENWEG 'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was th...
MATT BERNINGER I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m...
MATT HOLLIDAY 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love ...
MATT GROENING I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for ...
MATT PROKOP You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
MATT DRUDGE There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of ha...
MATT GROENING 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S...
MATT TAIBBI I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore...
MATT BEVIN If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home lear...
MATT DAMON What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black a...
MATT BOMER I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as i...
MATT DAMON I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style a...
MATT GROENING On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in t...
MATT GROENING I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to ...
MATT STONE I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympat...
MATT DILLON My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
MATT DAMON It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the rig...
MATT APUZZO Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between...
MATT GONZALEZ If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it c...
MATT SMITH We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general coul...
MATT APUZZO Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversaria...
MATT TAIBBI I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
MATT SMITH No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can'...
MATT CAMERON Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over...
MATT GROENING While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
MATT BEVIN Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity...
MATT GONZALEZ The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before...
MATT MCGORRY In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that&...
MATT BOMER Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and ...
MATT BARR I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.
MATT MCGORRY I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange s...
MATT MCGORRY It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm q...
MATT MCGORRY I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably...
MATT MCGORRY I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it...
MATT MCGORRY We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to ...
MATT MCGORRY My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded...
MATT MCGORRY I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I w...
MATT MCGORRY For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just ki...
MATT MCGORRY Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, ...
MATT MCGORRY I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, ...
MATT MCGORRY I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a l...
MATT MCGORRY I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things i...
MATT MCGORRY I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bu...
MATT MCGORRY At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you ...
MATT MCGORRY When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting t...
MATT MCGORRY It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.
MATT MCGORRY There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day,...
MATT MCGORRY I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding co...
MATT MCGORRY In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first n...
MATT MCGORRY People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to ...
MATT MCGORRY The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was...
MATT MCGORRY As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for s...
MATT MCGORRY A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
MATT MCGORRY I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ...
MATT MCGORRY I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly yo...
MATT DILLON I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the star...
MATT CARTWRIGHT The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to...
MATT CARTWRIGHT In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resilien...
MATT CARTWRIGHT Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.
MATT CARTWRIGHT The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but th...
MATT CARTWRIGHT Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastruc...
MATT CARTWRIGHT If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.
MATT CARTWRIGHT Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy dec...
MATT CARTWRIGHT East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states ...
MATT CARTWRIGHT When you think positive, good things happen.
MATT KEMP Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can als...
MATT CARTWRIGHT I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
MATT LANTER I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business ...
MATT MULLENWEG Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and b...
MATT BOMER I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &...
MATT GROENING We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
MATT MEAD I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see...
MATT BOMER Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a de...
MATT GROENING Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ...
MATT HUGHES With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Cha...
MATT GROENING Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as the...
MATT HAIG The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message ...
MATT BERNINGER In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or c...
MATT MULLENWEG As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distrib...
MATT BEVIN Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect t...
MATT DAMON I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping thin...
MATT SMITH