Madonna Ciccone quote: "I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this."

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself...
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on th...
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecuriti...
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be...
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interest...
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point...
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me,...
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need ...
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ...
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at ...
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what...
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each oth...
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and c...
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the ...
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say ...
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that...
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their ...
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality trai...
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I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school...
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about...
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for puni...
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early a...
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused...
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of ...
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a...
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a ...
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child...
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some b...
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for t...
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don...
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I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in...
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I li...
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her out...
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have ...
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitat...
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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a m...
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I on...
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosit...
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there a...
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't fin...
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with...
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr...
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who w...
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiri...
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I...
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.
MADONNA

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
MADONNA

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am havin...
MADONNA

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have en...
MADONNA

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel ag...
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Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling -...
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, ...
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I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
MADONNA

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
MADONNA

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
MADONNA

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel a...
MADONNA

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
MADONNA

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible f...
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I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
MADONNA

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always chan...
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I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another qual...
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray
MADONNA

Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.
MADONNA

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
MADONNA

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. ...
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Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been ...
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I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not m...
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I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you w...
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My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.
MADONNA

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.
MADONNA

They are going to see Revolver.
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He's [Prince Charles] very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't fin...
MADONNA

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am hav...
MADONNA

(Corn) still hasn't provided evidence that he's done an investigation, ... We want to see the tax re...
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Isaac.
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Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no.
MADONNA

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult
MADONNA

Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
MADONNA

There's only so much you can learn in one place. The more that you wait, the more time that you wast...
MADONNA

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now,
MADONNA

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good,...
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Two days? No! It has to be right now - I have to prove that you're wrong now. Sometimes I need to le...
MADONNA

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very...
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I'd like to be more involved in making the world a better place.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
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I just realized that nothing is what it seems.
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Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind.
MADONNA

Beauty's where you find it,
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take it or leave it
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Never forget to dream
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of ...
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There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.
MADONNA

Yeah, this has been a great learning experience and Jonas kept me involved in a lot of the decision-...
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Love is a bird, she needs to fly.Let all the hurt inside of you die.
MADONNA

With so many highlights of my career having taken place on MTV and VH1 and then with the addition of...
MADONNA

She's a mess. Madge has reinvented herself so many times she's run out of steam.
MADONNA

That's so duh, ... Which one don't I have. You've got to stop being so prolific. Every time I get a ...
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[My daughter Lourdes and I] listen to Britney Spears songs together.
MADONNA

My daughter Lourdes and I listen to Britney Spears songs together.
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I love Britney (Spears). I want to do nothing but support her and praise her. I became obsessed with...
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Confessions on a Dance Floor.
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It's like me keeping a journal, but it's visual,
MADONNA

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
MADONNA

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
MADONNA

[Want parenting tips from the Material Mom?] When Daddy gets home, they get chocolate, ... I'm the d...
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated instit...
MADONNA

Strong women leave big hickies
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I like to show off when I'm on stage, but I don't like to show on, like, 'Come in and check it out. ...
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I love living in England. I feel comfortable and safe here. I want my family to grow up here.
MADONNA

[A fantasy sequence in] Swept Away ... Come on-a My House.
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Music! Makes the people! Come together!
MADONNA

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world
MADONNA

He (singer Prince) reeks of lavender. It turned me on, actually.
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I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
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I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.
MADONNA

He is attempting to sell the liquor license to the bar,
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HAMMER HORROR SERIES
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If I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody els...
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Don't just stand there let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.
MADONNA

[• LA WESLEY BONITA: The Material Girl has stepped onto the political stage and endorsed Clark.] I...
MADONNA

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
MADONNA

They had to think about it, Benny and Bjorn. They didn't say yes straight away.
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I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me fee...
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I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars.... When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school...
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Vogue.
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acting out a fantasy
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It's none of my business what people say about me.
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Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.
MADONNA

Evita.
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It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn'...
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Power without guilt, love without doubt....
MADONNA

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
MADONNA

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
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There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, yo...
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[The album was recorded in Price's London flat.] I'd come by in the morning and Stuart would answer ...
MADONNA

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and for...
MADONNA

I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video whi...
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naming names, identifying marketers, corporate interests, major lobbying groups who are trying to go...
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Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
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I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.
MADONNA

Sick and perverted always appeals to me.
MADONNA

I haven't done it in a race until today. It happened at a great time.
CAITLIN CICCONE

I just went out there and went for it. When I'm just thinking about my skiing, I'm OK ... and I was ...
CAITLIN CICCONE

It's all about my run on that day. I was just thinking about my skiing, I don't really think about a...
CAITLIN CICCONE

This election was a proxy for a bigger struggle to change the culture and lifestyle in Harrisburg,
TERRY MADONNA

We are in a very unusual environment.
TERRY MADONNA

When Republicans represent moderate districts, they become less conservative just as Democrats repre...
TERRY MADONNA

Democrats scratch their heads and can't figure out why he keeps winning. They don't understand how s...
TERRY MADONNA

This is just not about the judges -- the judges are not known directly by people, ... This is guilt ...
TERRY MADONNA

This is a herculean populist insurrection, the likes of which I haven't seen.
TERRY MADONNA

I've never seen anything like this, ... It's a populist insurrection.
TERRY MADONNA

I'd come by in the morning and Stuart would answer the door in his stocking feet -- as he'd been up ...
SINGER MADONNA

Our intention was to give a nod and a wink to people like Giorgio Moroder and the Bee Gees. Stuart a...
SINGER MADONNA

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

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