Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large.
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Low stir of leaves and dip of oarsAnd lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
