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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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Madonna Ciccone
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
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I have to get way more vocal and become a little bit less mysterious.
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I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.
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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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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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It's always exciting for me to perform.
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Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.
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I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.
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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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If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.
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People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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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 tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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Nothing lasts forever. Should I?
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If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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