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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.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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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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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.
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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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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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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
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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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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
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If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?
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