Madonna Ciccone Quotes

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.

Madonna Ciccone

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FocusPainChildSufferingMeChaos

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

John C. Mather

UniverseFindInspiredMagnificent

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

Maurice Sendak

ParentsDownKnowEverythingTell

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Andy Warhol

BeautyMyselfSayingTalkingKnow

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

Michael J. Fox

MyselfEndWantBoyHearingOut

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Amelie Nothomb

SuccessYouVanityMoreNeedAny

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Amy Grant

GoodPeopleTreatProcessYouKnow

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

Stan Kenton

GreatTimePeopleThinkYouWant

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

Steve Winwood

MistakeSomeoneYouAuthorityRight

I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.

Ronny Chieng

TimeSchoolMaturityLawLaw School

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

Russell M. Nelson

FearPowerSayingCareMy OwnMore

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

Michael Landon

ThreeDogsGotKidsNineOven

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

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