1. Madonna Ciccone
Madonna is an American recording artist, dancer, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance. After performing as member of the more..

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Madonna Ciccone:"When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done." #Cities and City Life

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Madonna Ciccone:"As soon as you tell me I can't do something - And that's how I've always been, starting from when I was a little girl. The boys could wear pants to church and the girls couldn't. And I used to say, But why? Is God going to love me less if I don't wear a dress? It just irked me - the rules. So I would put pants on under my dress, just to f*ck with my father. And after church, I would tell him I had pants and I'd say, See, lightning did not strike me. And I guess I've been doing that ever since." #Love

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Madonna Ciccone:"beauty is where you find it." #Beauty

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Madonna Ciccone:"No one knows how to work this business like she does." [68] #Business

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Madonna Ciccone:"She's the kind of person that really does get up at five in the morning to go swimming. She wasn't at all prima donna-ish. She wasn't one of those people that want to be alone and sit in their trailer the whole time. I think she has much more of a sense of humour that people give her credit for. Too many people take that femme fetale stuff at face value." Susan seidelman, director of Desperately Seeking Susan. #Acting and Actors

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Madonna Ciccone:"If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna." #Names

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Madonna Ciccone:"I don't think you can ever love enough." #Love

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Madonna Ciccone:"Believe me, if I got asked to work with her, I certainly wouldn’t turn it down. Of all the women I’m fascinated by, she’s certainly up there." [165] Mika #Women

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Madonna Ciccone:"I don't take drugs: I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally. The only problem is going to sleep. But I never take pills... I drink herbal teas." #Tea

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Madonna Ciccone:"She is very natural. I did not get to know her as a person but she is down-to-earth and straightforward. She just speaks her mind." [30] DJ Gordon Edge #Escapism

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Madonna Ciccone:"Now that I got everyone's attention, what do I have to say?" (Behind The Music on VH1) #Music

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Madonna Ciccone:"I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true." (Spoken at the beginning of the "Virgin Tour" concert video). #Life and Living

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Madonna Ciccone:"I get to meet some very, very beautiful ladies through my job. Madonna is very sexy and she really flirted with me, which was amazing." [163] Tim Vincent #Flirting

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Madonna Ciccone:"One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. When you get your head wrapped around that, you can no longer think of life as a series of random events - you participate in life in a way you didn't previously. I am the architect of my destiny. I am in charge. I bring that to me, or I push that away. You can no longer blame other people for things that happened to you. The other is that there is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last." (About Kabbalah) [12] #Life and Living

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Madonna Ciccone:"When I experienced what was going on first hand, I just got sucked into the whole thing. Thank God I did. I met some amazing people and, hopefully, I’ve changed the lives of a lot of children. Just as important, I think it’s been an incredible growing and learning experience for me." (About her work in Malawi). #Travel and Tourism

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Madonna Ciccone:"It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity." #Chastity

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Madonna Ciccone:"When I was a child I use to think she was my real mother." #Children

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Madonna Ciccone:"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." #Freedom

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Madonna Ciccone:"I've known her since I was 15 and she was 17, longer than I've known my wife. We have had a great relationship, and part of that was because I never needed anything from her. I recognised that we were in two different occupations. Not to disparage one ounce of her musicality, I was always of the belief that her persona was her career. Whether she was making a movie or writing a song or punching a photographer, it was all pushing a persona forward, and that was the real body of work. I was never tempted to slip a song to her at thanksgiving." Joe Henry, Madonna's brother-in-low. [151] #Marriage

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Madonna Ciccone:"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." #Belief

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