John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
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My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.
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My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.
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Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? asks security guard Is seventeen legal?
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.
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I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.
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I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.
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I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
