Mark Hoppus Quotes
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
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When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
