John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Everyone wants to be sexy.
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
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I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
