John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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You want to play? Come find me angel boy.
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I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
