John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'
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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
