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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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
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We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.
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I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
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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.
