John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
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Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
