Mark Hoppus Quotes

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

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• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

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• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

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• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

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• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

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• Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

  

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• I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

  

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• I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

  

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• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

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• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
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• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

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• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

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• I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

  

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• People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

  

  Victoria Wood
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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

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• Life is a zoo in a jungle.

  

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• I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

  

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• I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

  

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• Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

  

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• Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

  

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