John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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I love women.
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It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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I think boldness is not the only thing in my personality, but there is lot more.
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
