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.
MADONNA CICCONEI don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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And I feel faster than the speeding light.
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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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Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it…
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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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, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.
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I’ve slept with Prince.
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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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As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
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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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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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I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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Do everything you’re told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, ‘It’s not so bad.’ Say ‘You are almost there!’ And say it a lot.
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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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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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