Madonna Ciccone Quotes

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

Madonna Ciccone

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It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

Slick Rick

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I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Tracey Ullman

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Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative.

Michelle Dean

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What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

Jason Robert Brown

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One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Chris Christie

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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Chuck D

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NSS is pleased that VP Pence has provided a strong endorsement for public-private partnerships in space.

Bruce Pittman

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I think that's part of the fun for us: we love looking at movies through the filter of a specific character - characters who aren't the lead - and figuring out the film from their point of view.

Anthony Russo

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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

Wyclef Jean

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Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

Phoebe Robinson

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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Peter Singer

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Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Pete Hamill

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