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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.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?.
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I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.
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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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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.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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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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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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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'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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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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If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.
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