Matt de la Pena Quotes

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

Matt de la Pena

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• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • High
  • Technology

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • World
  • Father
  • Son

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Power
  • Death
  • Words

• I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Know
  • Head
  • Leaders

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • School
  • Money

• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability, once Europe ceased to reproduce itself. The descendants of the men who went out from Europe to conquer and Christianize the world have decided to leave the world. The culture of death triumphs, as the poor but fecund Muslims, expelled centuries ago, return to inherit the estate.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Men
  • Death

• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • True

• In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.

  

  Margaret Weis
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Author

• I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Jesus

• I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • World
  • School
  • High