John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
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What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
