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" My words are my bullets. "
John Lydon
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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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" No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. "
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" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
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" Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. "
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" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
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" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "
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" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
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" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "
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" 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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" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "
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" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "
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" I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "
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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
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" I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. "
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Hurt
" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "
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" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
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" 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. "
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