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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 age is because I had to feel independent.

Madonna Ciccone

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can’t relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.
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Compassion Moving Reality
Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?
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Hollywood Hurt Look
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.
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Beautiful Growing School
Beauty’s where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.
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Beauty Bumps Grind
There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It’s about 20 steps away.
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Away Far Sides Step
Rita Haywood gave good face.
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Art Faces Media
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
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Age Forty Idiot
I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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Dresses People Thinking
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Inspirational Inspiring Men
When I think about popular culture, I can’t help but think that we’re living in the age of loneliness. There’s this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
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Loneliness Real Thinking
All you need is your own imagination. So use it that’s what it’s for.
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Imagination Need Use
I can’t stand when I walk into a room and everyone’s not talking to each other and just on their phones.
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Phone Room Talking
There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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Borderline Create Thing
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.
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Boy Girl School
I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
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Feel Home Just Today
When I came to New York it was the first time I’d ever taken a plane, the first time I’d ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I’d ever done.
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Cab Country People Taxi

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

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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 age is because I had to feel independent.

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