Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
