Mark Hoppus Quotes
I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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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'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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America is huge.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.
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When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
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I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.
