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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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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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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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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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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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.
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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
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Our band will never change, we will always be 5 singing idiots .
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
