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" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
John Lydon
World
Done
Fact
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" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
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" One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
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" I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. "
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" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
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" As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off. "
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" I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche. "
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" I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.' "
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" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
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" I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out. "
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" If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. "
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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'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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" 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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" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
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" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
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" I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. "
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" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
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" Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. "
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" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
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