Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
