John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
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I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.
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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.
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A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
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One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
Biz Stone -
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
