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We're pretty... pretty vacant
And we don't care.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
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Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises.
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
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If you accept the forms that be, then you're doomed to your own ultimate blandness.
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Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.
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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
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There's no future in England's dreaming No future, no future, no future for you No future, no future, no future for me
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Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
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No one in this band is a musician. We all hate the term. We're something close to factory workers. Machinists. Skilled operators.
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Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
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I am an Anti-Christ
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want but I know where to get it
I wanna destroy passers-by
Because I wanna be anarchy!
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When there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future
Your future
God Save the Queen.
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You don't write "God Save The Queen" because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.
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There's no love at all... You can't love anything. Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussy cat. It doesn't apply to humans, and if it does it just shows how low you are.
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Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.
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You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
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England's a violent place. Too violent for me. That's why I prefer it here (the USA). For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. This place suits me and the wife.
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[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
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Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."
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January 31, 1956
(age 68)
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