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" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "
John Lydon
Love
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Out
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" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "
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" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "
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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 hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
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" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "
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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. "
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" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "
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" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
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" Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. "
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Loved
" I love America. I love Americans. "
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" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
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" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "
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" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
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Harm
" 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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" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
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" 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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" I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "
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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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Me
Society
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
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" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "
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" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "
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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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" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "
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" I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw. "
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" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. 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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