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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
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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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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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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.
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The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
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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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If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
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For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
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Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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