John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

John Joseph Lydon

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Anger
  • Greed
  • Follow

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Business
  • Acting

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Tree

• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Morning
  • Bedroom
  • Roll

• As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Future
  • Myself

• She was a genius, my mother.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • She
  • Mother
  • Genius

• Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Character
  • Work Hard

• What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?

  

  Sam Walton
  • Around
  • Dogs
  • Haul

• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Business
  • Control
  • Will

• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She
  • High
  • Picture

• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

  

  Tacitus
  • World
  • Ocean
  • Immigration

• It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Done
  • Purpose
  • Immigration

• I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

  

  Frank Silva
  • Trying

• I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Superhero

• At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Writing
  • Policy
  • Bottom

• Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Immigration