John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
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All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
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My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
