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 CICCONEI like to be provocative. I like to make people think. I like to touch people’s hearts. And if I can do all three of those things in one fell swoop, then I feel like I’ve really accomplished something.
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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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Elvis Presley? He’s God.
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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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I like to be provocative. I like to make people think. I like to touch people’s hearts. And if I can do all three of those things in one fell swoop, then I feel like I’ve really accomplished something.
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Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove
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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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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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My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.
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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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And I feel faster than the speeding light.
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Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.
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I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
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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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All you need is your own imagination. So use it that’s what it’s for.
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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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