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John Lydon Quotes

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

John Lydon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 31, 1956

Topics

Memory Me Back Young Boy Years

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert Jenkins

Government Me Appreciate Intention

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

Robert Lepage

Technology Trying You Hide Sometimes

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom

Short Fine Sure Been Writer Stories

I think we disregard fans too much. They drive our sport. The money has gotten so big that it has become a corporate league other than the nosebleed seats.

Stan Van Gundy

Money Drive Think Too Much Become

No one should discriminate.

Rob Portman

Should Discriminate

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Rob Sheffield

Live Shoes Red Game Guitar Reach

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

Rita Ora

Singing Down Eighteen Between Pub

My aesthetic is, in short, 'cool substitute teacher.'

Josh Gondelman

Teacher Cool Aesthetic Short

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Jose Bergamin

Talk Order Agree

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

Sharon Jones

Me Wolf Wedding Wall Street Band

Once, I went to the premiere of a film, and the producer asked me if I liked it. I said it's crap. But I don't say that anymore. Now I say I have to think about it. If you ever hear me say that, you know the answer!

Twinkle Khanna

Me Think You Know Said Say

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

Challenges Ending Discrimination Jury