Mark Hoppus Quotes
I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.
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After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.
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I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
