Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
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One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
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It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.
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Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
