John Lydon Quotes

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

John Lydon

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I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Jesse White

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Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

John Lloyd

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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Robert Schumann

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'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.'

Anna Kendrick

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In life you need to take a risk.

Stefano Gabbana

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I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Tucker Carlson

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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad

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It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

Jason Priestley

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Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

Claire Cameron

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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

William Least Heat-Moon

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