John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
