Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
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Toni: Mamá... MAMÁ! I'm paying peak long-distance rates here. Could you save the Hail Marys until we hang up?
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I really believe in melody.
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We used to have a tax in this country called the Estate Tax, which was very popular, because it's a tax on very, very, very rich fucks who die. And people thought, 'That's a good person to tax.' And that is a good person to tax! Because rich fucks who die should give away their money, or else they give it to their ne'er-do-well kid who becomes Uday Hussein.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
