John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
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I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
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Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
