"I guess I don't really know what I……" — Matt de la Pena
"I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet."
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13 Quotes by Matt de la Pena
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby…
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless,…
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn…
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where…
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this…
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing.…
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But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment…
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power…
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended…
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments…
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids…
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Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the…
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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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