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I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

Madonna Ciccone

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
I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
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Inspiring People Thinking
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
I have great respect for Sean Penn. It’s like most relationships that fail. It’s not one thing, it’s many thing that go on over a period of time.
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Failing Goes Periods
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
My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings
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Boyfriend New Silent
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
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
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
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
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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Believe Fire Mean
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
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Catholic Pain Punishment
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
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.
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Compassion Moving Reality
Marriage? I don’t know what I really think about marriage. I’m a bit confused on that issue.
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Confused Issue Thinking
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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Negative Photography Turn

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