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I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

Madonna Ciccone
Team, Player, People
Source: www.theguardian.com

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

Madonna Ciccone
Believe, Agnostic, Premium

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

Madonna Ciccone
Song, Careers, People

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.

Madonna Ciccone
Believe, Feel Better, Thinking

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna Ciccone
Mind, Different, Incredibles

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

Madonna Ciccone
Thinking, Careers, Ideas
"Madonna On A Mission". Parade Interview, parade.com. June 24, 2008.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Madonna Ciccone
Revenge, Gains, Humiliating
Q Magazine Interview, April 1, 2003.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Madonna Ciccone
Successful, Thinking, Games
"Ray of light: Madonna and her love affair with the lens". Interview with Vince Aletti, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 1999.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Madonna Ciccone
Real, Inspiration, Creativity

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

Madonna Ciccone
New York, Hands, Years
Source: www.theguardian.com

I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

Madonna Ciccone
Girl, Lying, Believe
Interview with Vince Aletti for Aperture Magazine, Summer 1999.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

Madonna Ciccone
Life Is Short, Life Is, Hungry

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

Madonna Ciccone
People, Want, Dirt
Source: gawker.com

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

Madonna Ciccone
Heartbroken, Mother, Alive
Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.

Madonna Ciccone
People, Groups, Fans

You can be sexy, but you can't be 50

Madonna Ciccone
Sexy

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Madonna Ciccone
Fun, People, Guy
Interview with Ryan Seacrest, October 2009.

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.

Madonna Ciccone
New York, Taken, Taxi Cabs
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

Madonna Ciccone
School, Mean, Kids
"Interview: Madonna reviews life". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 19, 1999.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

Madonna Ciccone
Sexy, Thinking, Men

I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.

Madonna Ciccone
People, Three, Unconventional
Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.

Madonna Ciccone
People, Age, Records
Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

Madonna Ciccone
Class, Firsts, Shows

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Madonna Ciccone
Dating, Care, Detroit

I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.

Madonna Ciccone
Book, Average, Feet

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