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I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Ridgecrest
California
Mark Allan Hoppus
Markus Allan Hoppus
Jack Hoppus
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The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.
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I don't think any of us felt like, Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record. If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.
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Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.
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It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.
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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad
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I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.
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My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
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I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.
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The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
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'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.
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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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