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Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

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Madonna Ciccone
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
Actor
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Bay City
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Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
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My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.
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It's always exciting for me to perform.
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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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Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why
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I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.
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The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.
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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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Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.
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Strong women leave big hickies
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Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.
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We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?
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I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.
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I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.
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I always acted like a star long before I was one.
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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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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 love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.
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I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in Body Shop] and the song has a very Indian flavor to it. I liked the idea of the body of a car as a kind of sexual metaphor - What you do to a car, what you do in a car - drive. So, lots of innuendos, and lots of fun.
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