Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
