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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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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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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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Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy.
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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
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Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.
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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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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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You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.
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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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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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