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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
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London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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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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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.
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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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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.
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I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.
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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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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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I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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