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.
MADONNA CICCONERita Haywood gave good face.
More Madonna Ciccone Quotes
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And I feel faster than the speeding light.
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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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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I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.
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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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One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it.
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To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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Marriage? I don’t know what I really think about marriage. I’m a bit confused on that issue.
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Do everything you’re told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, ‘It’s not so bad.’ Say ‘You are almost there!’ And say it a lot.
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I’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.
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I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80’s just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
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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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Beauty’s where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.
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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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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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