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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• 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

• 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

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Comfortable
  • Teller
  • Jeweller

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Career
  • Talent
  • Discover

• The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Important
  • Thing

• I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Year
  • Against
  • Aggression

• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Age
  • Interesting

• You probably think Italians like meals with heavy meats and sauces, but they actually prefer light meats. They see turkey as a healthy, light white meat that lends itself excellently to their style of cooking, and they use it in many different ways. Also, Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving so they perceive turkey as an all-year round option.

  

  Todd English
  • Different
  • Style
  • Cooking

• 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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