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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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 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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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.
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We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.
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I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
