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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.

Madonna Ciccone

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn’t find him stiff at all.
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Salad Tables Throwing
Younger people are generally more adventurous – they’re more open, more fun – have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.
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Fun General Guy People
There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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Borderline Create Thing
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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Gay Made Right
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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Beautiful Growing School
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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Punk Rock Thinking
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don’t worry about that.
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Dangerous Show Worry
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
My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings
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Boyfriend New Silent
I can’t stand when I walk into a room and everyone’s not talking to each other and just on their phones.
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Phone Room Talking
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’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.
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People Strange View
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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Heart People Thinking
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
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Age Forty Idiot
Rita Haywood gave good face.
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Art Faces Media
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
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Degradation Media Stupidity

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