Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
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Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
