Mark Hoppus Quotes
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Everybody likes compliment.
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Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together.
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...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.
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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.