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.
Pat Benatar
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
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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.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
H. P. Lovecraft
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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.
Randy Houser
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
Felicity Kendal
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
Ted Sarandos
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
Naomi Klein
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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.
Ed Oxenbould
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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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.
Campbell Scott
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt
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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.
Ira Glass
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I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.
Sarah Dessen
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
Nina Conti
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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.
Madonna Breakfast Club