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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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