John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I was raised Catholic.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'
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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
