Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
