Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Madonna Breakfast Club

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Child
  • Race
  • Passionate

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Ethics

• It'll seem convenient 'cause I am ambassador for the charity, but Look Good Feel Better launched a set of makeup brushes through Priceline, and I use the multi-tasking brush to apply my liquid foundation. It's wonderful. As good as the Bobbi Brown Full Coverage Face brush, which I also use.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Makeup
  • Charity
  • Ambassador

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Read
  • Modern
  • Novels

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • History
  • Albums

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Famous
  • Creativity
  • Talent

• Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Successful
  • Lying
  • Ambitious

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Learn

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity