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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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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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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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
