Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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No lady she had had to do with had ever had such a thing on her dressing-table. Powder was different, because one needed powder sometimes for other things besides one’s face, and also one powdered babies, and they, poor lambs, couldn’t be suspected of wanting to appear different from what God had made them. But a lip-stick! Red stuff. What actresses put on, and those who were no better than they should be. Her mistress and a lip-stick—what would Miss Virginia say?
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My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
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The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
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Your daddy had to go back to school a little. He had some strange thoughts - and he wanted other grown-ups to believe them. It's not right for others to believe wrong thoughts, is it?
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
