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" People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. "
John Lydon
Royal
People
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" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "
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" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "
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" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
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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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" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
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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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" 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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" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
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" I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. "
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Like
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Through
" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
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Work
Human Being
" Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! "
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Common
" I love America. I love Americans. "
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Love
I Love
America
" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
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" I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car. "
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Good
Car
Music
" 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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Care
Death
Lunch
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
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Never
Communist
Said
" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
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Liars
Lies
Somebody
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
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People
" The joy of life is in the work. "
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Joy
Life
" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
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You
" I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. "
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Proud
Funny
Country
" 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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Feel
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" 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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Loved
" 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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" I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love. "
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Commitment
True
" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
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" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "
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Never
" Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. "
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" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
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