Hey you! Don’t be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!
MADONNA CICCONEWhen 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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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 think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect
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There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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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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And I feel faster than the speeding light.
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Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!
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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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