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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.

Madonna Ciccone

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.
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Age Home Independent
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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Guy Men Thinking
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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Idea People Perspective
I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.
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Art Film Form
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.
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Boy Girl School
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
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Awkward School Self Esteem
Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove
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Aid Day Helping World
Hey you! Don’t be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!
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Hey Rubber Silly
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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Hurt Love Strong Women
The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.
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Definitions Hurt Know
Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it…
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Art Entertainment Media
If you don’t vote, you’re going to get a spanking.
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People Spanking Vote
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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Outsiders People School
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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Cab Country People Taxi
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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Choices Foolish Thinking
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Inspirational Inspiring Men

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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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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