My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon… I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.
In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don’t do.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you’d starve.
I’m a really rotten liar. Generally, if I’ve tried to pull off a lie, it hasn’t worked out to my advantage.
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Whether it’s Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.
I’m always a great student of writers’ work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk’s robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.
Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
I’m spoiled rotten, as my children would tell you.
Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
An experienced slush-pile reader doesn’t need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don’t need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it’s rotten.
Johnny Rotten. He’s a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he’d stand up and holler. He’s funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don’t think he’s a jerk because he isn’t.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.
In Marvel Comics, the worst thing was always that your loved ones could be attacked, or you could be horribly beaten in a knock-down, drag-out fight, but in the Superman comics, you would be run out of town with people throwing rotten vegetables at you and waving a sign that said, ‘Superman, Who Needs You?’
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.
The Harvey Weinstein case showed us that Hollywood is rotten to the core.
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it’s too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
It’s so wonderful… if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there’s these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
My sweet tooth was so bad, it was rotten. So I had to have it pulled. For me, with sugar, it’s all or nothing. So I had to cut it out.
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