John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
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When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.
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Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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We boil at different degrees.
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
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I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
