Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.
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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
