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.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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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.
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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.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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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.
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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.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
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When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.
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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.
