Top 100 Madonna Ciccone Quotes
#1. The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.
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#2. I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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#3. I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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#4. I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.
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#5. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
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#6. 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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#8. Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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#9. I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.
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#10. My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.
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#11. 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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#12. I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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#13. I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.
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#15. I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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#16. Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.
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#17. Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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#18. I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!
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#19. I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.
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#20. Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.
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#21. When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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#23. Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away
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#24. It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
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#25. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.
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#26. That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.
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#27. I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.
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#28. Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is.
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#29. You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.
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#32. 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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#33. Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.
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#34. There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.
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#35. The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.
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#36. Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I'm worth it.
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#37. I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
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#39. I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.
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#40. I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.
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#43. People love pitting strong females against each other.
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#44. The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.
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#45. I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?
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#46. You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.
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#48. The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
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#49. I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.
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#50. I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.
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#51. With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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#52. If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.
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#53. I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.
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#54. I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.
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#55. If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.
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#56. 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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#57. There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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#58. I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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#60. I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.
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#61. Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.
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#62. Cease Fire ! Inshallah!!! Baruch Hashem!! Praise the Lord! #ceasefireforever #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove
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#63. I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.
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#64. My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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#65. I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.
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#66. My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings
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#67. Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.
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#68. Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room.
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#69. I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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#70. Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom
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#71. I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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#72. Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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#73. Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.
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#74. I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily ... and I'm reliable.
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#75. You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.
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#77. I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.
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#78. You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.
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#80. The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep
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#81. When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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#82. In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."
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#83. Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.
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#84. Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.
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#85. If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.
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#86. 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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#88. People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what? ... They're absolutely right.
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#89. The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.
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#90. Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'
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#91. When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.
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#93. Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?
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#94. Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
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#96. I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated - black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board.
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#97. Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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#99. Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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#100. My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.
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