John Lydon Quotes

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

John Lydon

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CharacterSchoolMeChurchYouLook

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

EducationMotherValueJoyPeople

I know it sounds so dumb, but when you've had pink hair for 12 years and take that away, you're looked at in a different light.

Jeffree Star

LightHairPinkYouDumbKnow

Maybe when I'm done fighting, I'll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.

Michael Bisping

FightingGymTrainDoneOpenMaybe

I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

Merritt Wever

TryingUnderstandAlwaysLinesThem

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

Tori Amos

MeControlWillHandBendCompany

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

Romesh Gunesekera

LifeWordsKingConnectedBeyond

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

Mary Wollstonecraft

MenManChurchDarkReasonProperty

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

WorkGoodTeacherTimePeopleThink

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

Dionne Warwick

MeForwardLookBackDesireWant

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

Christian Bale

WorkLovePeopleThinkLongYou

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

William Glasser

YearLongNothingTeachersPayKeep

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

Shawn Johnson

BackBasicsStartedZeroGymnastics

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