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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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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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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We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.
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My woman, the person who's buying the clothes, is from all walks in life. She's from different countries and cultures. She's going to be different sizes.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.
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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.
