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" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
John Lydon
Here
Mine
Your
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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 love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "
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Brain
Makes
People
" I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me. "
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Want
Desert
Island
" 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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Always
Music
Loved
" 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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Place
Daily
Skill
" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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Me
Playing
Rock
" I've always despised the hippies. "
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Despised
Always
Hippies
" I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude. "
John Lydon
Gratitude
Know
Living
" 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. "
John Lydon
You
Society
Me
" 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. "
John Lydon
Yourself
Good
Look
" 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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Island
Place
Better
" 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. "
John Lydon
Space
Respect
Religion
" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
John Lydon
Nothing
Anyone
Dying
" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "
John Lydon
You
Human
Human Being
" 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. "
John Lydon
Mountains
Love
Have Fun
" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
John Lydon
You
Put
Dog
" 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. "
John Lydon
Positive
Deep
Life
" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
John Lydon
Middle
Right
Stand
" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "
John Lydon
Love
Adore
Happens
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
John Lydon
Never
Thought
Band
" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
John Lydon
Else
Freedom
You
" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "
John Lydon
Civil
War
Thing
" Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. "
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Going
Much
Wooden
" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
John Lydon
Like
Landscapes
Diversity
" 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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Great
Meeting
Perfect
" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
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Hard
Being
Themselves
" 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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Upside Down
World
Time
" Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. "
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Then
Good
Myself
" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "
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Music
Language
Greatest
" 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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Love
Moment
Out