John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

John Joseph Lydon

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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.

  

  Imelda May
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• A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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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.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
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• To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

  

  Fidel Castro
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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.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.

  

  Washed Out
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• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
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  • Clear

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

  

  Imelda May
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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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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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.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

  

  Ben Carson

• But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

  

  Edward Bellamy
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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.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Life

• Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Life
  • Up
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• Obviously to be on this team, to be able to represent my country and have the platform that I do, I'm incredibly grateful for it.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Country
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• It must be love,love,love!

  

  Nathan Sykes
  • Love
  • Must Be

• I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • People
  • Attention

• Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Wisdom
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• Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

  

  John Joseph Lydon