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Madonna Ciccone, born on August 16, 1958, in Michigan, United States, is a renowned global singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Known as the 'Queen of Pop', she is celebrated for her unique musical style, ever-changing image, and musical innovation. Since her debut in 1978, Madonna has released numerous chart-topping albums and penned classic hits such as 'Like a Virgin', 'Vogue', and 'Ray of Light', profoundly influencing the global pop music scene.

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“If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.”

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“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”

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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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“Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.”

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“You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."”

People Thinking Want Persons Ideas Rooms Make You Think

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“I don't think I have to introduce myself, unless you don't recognize me with my clothes on.”

Thinking Clothes Introducing

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“People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.”

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“I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.”

People Thinking Should Art Controversial

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“I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.”

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“The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.”

People Thinking One Thing Fans Mines Fascinating Comment Wasting Your Time

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“Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.”

Thinking Knows Bits Issues Confused

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“I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.”

Thinking Way Want Said Dream Film Desire Secret One Day Directors Married Decided Hollywood Dancing Inspired Agents Filmmaker Stop Dreaming Secret Desire

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“Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.”

Thinking Children Parent Disappear

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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.”

Thinking Should Married Institutions Silly Outdated

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“Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.”

Thinking Knows Bits Know Me Nazi

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“Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”

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“I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.”

Thinking Christian Jesus Religious Mary Mary Magdalene

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“I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.”

Thinking Stuff Forget Focus Negative Strive Things In Life Strife

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“I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.”

Thinking Creation Destruction

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“To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.”

Thinking Rocks Program Boxes Establishment Punk Punk Rock

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“I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.”

Thinking Sometimes Moments Hair Green Purple Lipstick Bad Hair

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“I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.”

Thinking Want Children Important Parent Journey Goes On Adopted

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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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“I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.”

Thinking Knows Lines Numbers Millions Singing Crosses Starting Meant To Be

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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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“It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.”

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“I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.”

Thinking Moving Stuff Moving Forward Old Stuff

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“I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.”

Thinking Theory Bisexual

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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.”

Thinking Different Rooms Kingdoms Queens Reign

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“I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.”

Thinking Married Provocative

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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.”

People Thinking Together Mistake Get Together

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“I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.”

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“I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture.”

Thinking Way Culture Meetings Old Fashioned

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“I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].”

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“People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.”

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“As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.”

People Thinking World Involved Inspired

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“Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.”

Thinking I Can Play Games Successful Hollywood Actresses Music Business Renegades

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“I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys!”

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“I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.”

Thinking Doe Artist Records Panic

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“I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.”

“I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.”

Thinking Men Way Sex Scary Sexy Sexually Rough Times Aggressors

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“I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.”

Thinking World Hard Relate Passive Places In The World

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“I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.”

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“I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.”

People Thinking Life Is Belief Stuff Trouble Wall Embrace Paradox Belief Systems

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“I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.”

Thinking Littles Stills Helping Age Couple And Love Harder Old Age Reviews Cynical Life And Love Idealist

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“Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.”

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“Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.”

People Thinking Bathroom Publicity

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“The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.”

Thinking World Real Modern Materials Illusion Beast Modern World Material World Undoing

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“We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.”

People Thinking World Important Problem America Easy Forget Poor Privileged Poor People

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“I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.”

Thinking Dying Sitting Toilets Contemplative

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Born: August 16, 1958
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 593

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