Top 100 Ciccone Quotes
#1. I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
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#2. The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.
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#3. 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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#4. You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.
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#5. I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.
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#6. Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.
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#7. I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.
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#8. I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.
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#9. Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't ( ... ) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt ( ... ) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop
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#10. I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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#11. Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.
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#12. I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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#14. People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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#15. 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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#16. After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't.
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#17. Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking
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#18. I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.
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#19. I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.
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#20. I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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#21. Say goodbye to yesterday ... those are the words I'll never say.
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#22. 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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#23. Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.
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#24. Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.
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#25. Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.
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#26. Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.
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#27. I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!
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#28. I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.
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#29. Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.
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#30. I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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#31. 'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message.
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#32. I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.
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#33. 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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#34. If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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#35. 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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#36. I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.
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#37. When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.
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#39. In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.
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#40. Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.
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#41. I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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#42. To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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#43. I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.
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#44. Straight men need to be emasculated ... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.
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#45. I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!
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#47. I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.
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#48. Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.
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#49. My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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#50. I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.
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#51. If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.
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#52. Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.
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#53. I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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#54. Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!
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#55. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
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#56. The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.
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#57. I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.
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#60. I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.
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#61. I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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#62. There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.
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#63. Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine.
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#64. 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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#65. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.
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#66. I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.
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#67. Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.
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#68. I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.
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#69. I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
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#70. I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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#71. I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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#72. Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.
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#73. I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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#74. 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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#76. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.
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#80. Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.
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#81. I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.
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#82. I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.
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#83. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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#84. I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture.
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#86. People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.
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#87. 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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#88. Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.
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#89. It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
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#90. Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.
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#91. I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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#92. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
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#93. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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#94. Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.
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#99. I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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#100. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
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