John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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I was possessed by London.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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It is, according to almost every guidebook, the world's 'greatest monument to love.
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Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo' jockin' da bitches slappin da hoes
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.
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Patriotism is the religion of hell.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
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As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
