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- I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
- You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
- Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just…
- I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
- 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…
- I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come…
- Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is…
- I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no…
- People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
- 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…
- I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long…
- I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of…
- Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
- I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
- The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
- 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of…
- A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get…
- All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy,…
- If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive…
- It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then…
- My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret…
- Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an…
- You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed…
- Fuck this and fuck that fuck it all and fuck a fucking brat!
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle