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" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
John Lydon
Hate
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You
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" I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. "
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" It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. "
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" Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. "
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" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "
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Place
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" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "
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" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "
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" I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. "
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" I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. "
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Proud
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" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
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People
Crazy
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" I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains. "
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Mountains
Love
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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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Something
General
" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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Playing
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" I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. "
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Funny
Country
" 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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People
Party
" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "
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Past
Religion
Music
" I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. "
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Done
Never
Hurt
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
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" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
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Liars
Lies
Somebody
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
John Lydon
Never
Communist
Said
" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
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Else
Freedom
You
" 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. "
John Lydon
Thinking
Me
You
" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "
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Just
Man
Heaven
" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "
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Wake Up
Always
Bed
" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "
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Family
Royal
" I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. "
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Said
Sex
Music
" Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. "
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Trying
You
" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
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Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
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Love
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Reason
" The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. "
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Art
Live
Radio