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" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
John Lydon
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" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
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" 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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" 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 don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "
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" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "
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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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" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "
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" I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "
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" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "
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" I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love. "
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" Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
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" Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything. "
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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 don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. "
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" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
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Singer
World
" 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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Mind
Youth
" I've always despised the hippies. "
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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'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
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Your
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Irish
Nuns
" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "
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Me
You
" 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
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" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
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" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "
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" Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much. "
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" I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile. "
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" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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Day
" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "
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