John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.
John Joseph Lydon
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Sam Shepard
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
Tamra Davis
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
T. C. Boyle
These teachings have been sent to explain the truth as Jesus intended it to be known in the world - not to give a new Christianity, but to give the real Christ-teaching: how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self...
Paramahansa Yogananda
The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.
Harry Browne
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climbThe crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublimeWith tears and laughter for all time!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past.
Adelaide Anne Procter
If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me.
Tupac Shakur
Interview with WAAF Radio (August 23, 2010).
Jerry Cantrell
Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook, and he's always been concerned about the internal beauty and logic of this creation that he's created. I don't think that the human implications of what he's created have often been apparent to him.
Franklin Foer
So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.
Josephine Angelini
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
Richard Thompson
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.
John Joseph Lydon