Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
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• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
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• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Book
  • Water

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
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• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • American
  • Style
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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
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• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
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• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Religion

• I can confidently say that I am comfortable with all the directors, co-star and producers with whom I have worked; there have been absolutely no tensions.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Star

• They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Star

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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