John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

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• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
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• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
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• I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
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• I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

  

  Mary Karr
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• Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

  

  Joe Mande
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• We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
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• Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
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• I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
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