Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

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• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Help
  • Safety

• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Success
  • Understanding
  • Deep

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Day

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Goal
  • Conversation

• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Disease
  • Environmental
  • Only

• There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Blessing
  • Sucks

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Done
  • Think
  • Crazy

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • Hand
  • Democracy
  • Enemy

• My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Great
  • Men
  • Father

• Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Business
  • Night

• I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Up
  • Great
  • Coffee

• Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Reality

• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  

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