John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.
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Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
