Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

Madonna Ciccone

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GoodChildrenGreatResponsibility

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

Joel Parkinson

WorldCareerFeelingFirstAwesome

Forty-five million people hit that button for 'In These Streets.' When you find out you have that kind of popularity, you better use it. It's called responsibility.

Jenifer Lewis

ResponsibilityPeopleBetterYouOut

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Maya Angelou

TruthChildrenPeopleGrowHonor

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Michael Connelly

DayEvery DayWriteJustParagraph

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

John Polkinghorne

LifeStarsGenerationUniverseNew

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

Stanley Kubrick

TimeJobChanceBetterWorthYou

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'

Steven Wright

LoveGoodCakeMindEatingYou

The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone.

Soccer Mommy

SchoolCoolWritingThoughtPhone

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Rodney Crowell

MotherSheOverTellWouldAgain

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

Douglas Rushkoff

BrainThoughtInternetEarlyWay

Kim Coates is my best friend. I met Coatsy in 2001 in Morocco while working on 'Black Hawk Down.'

William Fichtner

FriendBestBest FriendBlackDown

One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank.

Sherrod Brown

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