John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been doing. Pink. Nobody wore pink, and now everybody wears it. It's flattering.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
