Matt Quotes

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

After eight years of Obama one thing is clear: Conservatives want a fighter.

I think that Putin views Obama as weak. I think that there is a sense that he could put the troops in Ukraine because he knows Obama will do very little than what he's done at this point.

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign policy, the Obama economic policies as harmful to America.

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

I don't want to allow everyone in the media to say everyone is in the alt right, which is what they try to do too often. Then it's their judgment on who is a racist and who isn't.

I think people who are concerned about the alt right are properly focusing on making sure it doesn't get mainstreamed, because it shouldn't be.

Donald Trump has many ads about Hillary Clinton's character and it's fair to look at both.

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different.

I've been with police on patrol. When you have a gun, you just feel different. There's a protective level and you feel all those feelings. You feel a little bit macho and a little bit frightened.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list.

While I've been asked to run for Congress, I really believe we need to defend freedom locally. And by doing that, by just standing at the local level we can make a massive difference.

We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?

I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.