Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) Quotes

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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• I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Doing

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Rome

• I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Saying

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Respect
  • Rights
  • Have

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Friends
  • Words
  • Learn

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Up
  • Men
  • Friends

• ..war in itself is one of the manifestations of life, like disease, love, and lust. And just as I follow fear, disease, lust, love, and hate to their utmost limits, well, now I am trying war. It is all life, wonderfully various and rich in inspiration.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Life
  • Love
  • War

• I do want to be involved in quality projects that say something positive about the Latino community.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Community
  • Quality
  • Positive

• My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • America
  • Dad

• At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary