I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
MADONNA CICCONEThe definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.
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I have great respect for Sean Penn. It’s like most relationships that fail. It’s not one thing, it’s many thing that go on over a period of time.
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As much as I think I’ve inspired people in the world, I’d like to be more involved bringing about world peace.
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Marriage? I don’t know what I really think about marriage. I’m a bit confused on that issue.
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Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
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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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Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!
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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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To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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The one thing I don’t understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It’s fascinating.
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And I feel faster than the speeding light.
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
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I’ve never really lived a conventional life, so I think it’s quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
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I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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Beauty’s where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.
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Elvis Presley? He’s God.
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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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I’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.
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Having money is just the best thing in the world.
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The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
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Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig . . . I mean, that’s me. That’s just me.
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We’ve made so many advances in other areas – civil rights, gay rights – but ageism is still an area that’s taboo and not talked about and dealt with.
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We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect
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People have this idea that if you’re sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there’s nothing else you could possibly offer.
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On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.
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When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
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