Mark Hoppus Quotes
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
