John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

John Joseph Lydon

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• Mine
• Amusement

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• Imperfection is perfection.

  

  Flume
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Francine Busby
  • American
  • Learn
  • Operations

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Simple
  • Sweet
  • Values

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Favourite

• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Problem
  • Find
  • Solution

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Cricket
  • Badminton

• You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Good
  • Work
  • Artist

• I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Underdog

• If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Things

• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Father

• Sometimes I hear it in his voice, but anyway, at the end of the day he's the shiny bumper bar.

  

  Kirk Pengilly INXS
  • Voice
  • Hear

• I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Goal
  • Direct
  • Mine

• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Compulsion
  • Amusement

• A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

  

  Xenophon
  • Great
  • Running
  • Horse

• I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Here
  • Mine
  • Amusement