Mark Hoppus Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'
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I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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I travel a lot.
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My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
