John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Joseph Lydon

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• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

  

  Laini Taylor
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• I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

  

  Larry Page
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• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  

  Walter Salles
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• Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

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• I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues

• I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.

  

  Ariana Reines
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• When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

  

  Todd Solondz
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• I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.

  

  Carly Steel
  • Up
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• You get to the point where you can feel a certain sensation of light.

  

  Arthur Dove
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  • Point

• Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

  

  John Joseph Lydon