Mark Hoppus Quotes

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

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• I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Son

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Need
  • Born
  • Singer

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
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• What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
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• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
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• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
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  • Hat

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Me
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Free

• I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Philosophy

• Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Wonder
  • Wrong
  • Went

• There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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