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" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "
John Lydon
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" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
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" If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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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. "
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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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" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "
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" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
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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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Death
Lunch
" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "
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" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "
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War
Thing
" I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. "
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Love
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" These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. "
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Daily
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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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" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
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" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "
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Feel
" 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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Name
Family
Strange
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
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Find
You
Sound
" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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Problem
Full
Internet
" A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. "
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You
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" When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. "
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Trying
Always
Brain
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
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Never
Thought
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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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" 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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" 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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" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
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" The joy of life is in the work. "
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