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If you’re sure of who you are it doesn’t really matter what people call you, does it?

Madonna Ciccone

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.
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Given Night Sweat
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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Fan Girl Girly
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 don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.
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Dresses People Thinking
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
Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove
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Aid Day Helping World
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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Hair Purple Thinking
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
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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Birth Cheer Cheerleader Good
I’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.
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People Strange View
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
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Degradation Media Stupidity
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
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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Away Far Sides Step
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
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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Punk Rock Thinking
They’re only words, unless they’re true.
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Philosophy Unless Word

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