Mark Hoppus Quotes

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Karma

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Watch

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Risk
  • Act
  • Recovery

• The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Blood
  • Protein
  • Split

• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reality
  • Air
  • Human

• India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Technology
  • India

• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • World
  • Words
  • Energy

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The day wears heavily, - why, then, ignore it; Peace is the soul's desire, - such thoughts restore it; The truth thou art, - it needs not implore it.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Art
  • Why
  • Truth

• The question of what we can do to give purpose or meaning to our lives has been debated for thousands of years by philosophers and common men. Yet today we seem, if anything, further from the answer than before. Despite our great material wealth and high standard of living, people are groping for something that money cannot buy.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Skiing

• All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Power

• The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Army
  • Defeated

• I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Care
  • Media
  • Difficult Time

• During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

  

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