John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

John Joseph Lydon

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• It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Done
  • Movie

• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Black
  • Speak
  • Walk

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Dirtiest

• The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Mathematics

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Country
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Sun

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• Choose the positive. - You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Success
  • Faith
  • Positive

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Long
  • History
  • Hope

• I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Done

• People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

  

  Deborah Bull
  • People

• You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.

  

  Byron Howard
  • People
  • Money
  • Hope

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Humility

• People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Food
  • Relationship

• I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • Foundation
  • Mysticism
  • Institute

• I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

  

  John Joseph Lydon