John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Knowing

• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Parents

• The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Laugh
  • Volume
  • Subway

• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Christian
  • Compassion
  • Meditation

• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • Music
  • True
  • Nature

• Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • True