I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80’s just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
MADONNA CICCONEElvis Presley? He’s God.
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I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
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I’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.
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I am very proud to be Italian.
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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.
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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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I’ve slept with Prince.
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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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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
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There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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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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Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?
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Truth is never far behind.
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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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Elvis Presley? He’s God.
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They’re only words, unless they’re true.
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