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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. "
John Lydon
Democracy
Country
Understand
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" Pop music I have always loved best. "
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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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Creation
Limits
God
" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
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You
" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "
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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
" 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
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Music
" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "
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Great
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Perfect
" Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process. "
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Again
Look
Over
" 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. "
John Lydon
Name
Family
Strange
" I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw. "
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Own
Trends
Old
" 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. "
John Lydon
Youth
Culture
Future
" 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
" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
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You
Think
People
" You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. "
John Lydon
You
Walls
Trying
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
John Lydon
Life
Humanity
Some
" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
John Lydon
Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" 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. "
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More
Trying
You
" I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. "
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Enjoyable
Release
Anything
" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "
John Lydon
My Own
Trumpet
Own
" 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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Said
Sex
Music
" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "
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Hate
Nothing
I Think
" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "
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Me
You
Give
" 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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Brain
Makes
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" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "
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Music
Language
Greatest
" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
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Middle
Right
Stand
" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "
John Lydon
Mental
Family
Royal
" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
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Always
Important
Rules
" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
John Lydon
Away
Human
Choices
" 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. "
John Lydon
Positive
Deep
Life
" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "
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Great
Music
Good Things