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I suffered fools so gladly.

Madonna Ciccone

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Madonna Ciccone
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
Actor
Art Collector
Businessperson
Composer
Dancer
Director
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Bay City
Michigan
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Madonna Ciccone
Madonna (entertainer)
Suffered
Fools
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Gladly

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I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.
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In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.
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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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I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.
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If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
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To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
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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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In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.
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No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
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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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My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.
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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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Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.
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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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It's not my nature to just kick back.
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Elvis Presley? He's God.
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Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?
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Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person
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A good relationship is a competition of generosity.
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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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