John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

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• Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Exercise

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Advance

• I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• Put out great music, and that's that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Great
  • Music
  • Put

• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Day
  • Fashion

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• In conformity with the recommendation of Congress, a proposition was early made to the British Government to abolish the mixed courts created under the treaty of April 7, 1862, for the suppression of the slave trade. The subject is still under negotiation.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • April

• 55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Value

• My political giving has merely followed my relationships.

  

  David Jolly
  • Political
  • Giving

• The first day I'm back from a tour, I have dinner with my parents. I sleep in my old bed. It's amazing.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Sleep

• My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Learning
  • Painting
  • Harmony

• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • Money
  • Earth

• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Real
  • Love

• My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Hand

• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Up
  • Nasty

• Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Nasty