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" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "
John Lydon
Thinking
Me
You
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" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "
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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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" 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 nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. "
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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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" 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 don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
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" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
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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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" There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. "
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" I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "
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" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "
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" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "
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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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