Quotes by Madonna Ciccone

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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Madonna Ciccone

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

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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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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.

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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

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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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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering...

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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

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