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" I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. "
John Lydon
Parents
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" You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! "
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" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
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" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "
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" Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. "
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" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
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" Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better. "
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" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
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" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "
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" If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what. "
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" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
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" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "
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" I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. "
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" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "
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" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
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" As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off. "
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Young
" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "
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You
" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "
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" You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on. "
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" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "
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" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "
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" Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! "
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" All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. "
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" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "
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" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "
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" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "
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" My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. "
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" Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! "
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