Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

Madonna Ciccone

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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

TogetherJobReadingThinkPersonal

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Mike Myers

CharacterMePerfectWonderStrange

Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they're coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions.

Mike Love

BeachAppreciationBandComingOwn

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Molly Bloom

SleepGoOutHangGrandma

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

BusinessIdeasGunInstinctPull

I once made a giant six-foot can of Crisco that a person had to dance in and that had an Elvis wig on top.

Chris March

DancePersonTopWigMadeGiant

Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.

Brandon Stanton

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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

LeaderFutureBrokenPromisesHavana

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

IdeasStoryBigIdeaMillionOnce

My style has definitely evolved. When I first started out I think I was a little all over the place and the clothes kind of wore me rather than the other way round. But now I'm at the point where I'm comfortable dressing for me, I know what works and what I like.

Ashley Greene

StyleMeThinkClothesPlaceKnow

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

LifeMottoSimplicitySeekNatural

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

Timothy Geithner

PurposePeopleWorldSmallPlan

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