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MADONNA CICCONETo 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.
More Madonna Ciccone Quotes
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I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
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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 am very proud to be Italian.
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Elvis Presley? He’s God.
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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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Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!
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All you need is your own imagination. So use it that’s what it’s for.
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Beauty’s where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.
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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 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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Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig . . . I mean, that’s me. That’s just me.
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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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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
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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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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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