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" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "
John Lydon
Some
Stones
Just
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" 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 Sense
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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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" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "
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Humor
" The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. "
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Live
Color
Born
" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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Song
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" 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. "
John Lydon
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Funny
Country
" 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
" I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. "
John Lydon
Great
Proud
School
" 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. "
John Lydon
Out
Walk
Young
" Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. "
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Me
Will
Television
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
John Lydon
Never
Thought
Band
" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
John Lydon
Best
Singer
World
" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
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Love
I Love
Bit
" 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. "
John Lydon
Me
Heart
Great
" 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
" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
John Lydon
Middle
Right
Stand
" Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. "
John Lydon
More
Trying
You
" 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
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
John Lydon
Life
Humanity
Some
" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
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Love
Habits
Reason
" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
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Like
Landscapes
Diversity
" '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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Music
Place
American
" 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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Makes
People
" 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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Church
Me
You
" You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on. "
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You
Mind
Youth
" I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. "
John Lydon
Ears
Eyes
Up
" Books are like my one and only joy. "
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Books
Like
Joy
" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
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Change
Love
Habits
" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "
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Hate
Nothing
I Think
" It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. "
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Marriage
Better
Good