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I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

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)
Humanist
Feminist

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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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I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.
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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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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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A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.
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Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.
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Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.
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I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.
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The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.
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I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.
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I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.
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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.
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I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I've learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I have seen life from just about every angle you can see it from.
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That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.
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I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
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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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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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Jean-Baptiste Mondino: She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time.
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I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
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I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.
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