John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
