Madonna

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Contemporary influential 204 sayings

Sayings by Madonna

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

c. 1990s-2000s — Statement about assertiveness
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

c. 1980s-1990s — Statement about self-identity and artistic expression
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I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

c. 1990s-2000s — Statement about self-awareness
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Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

c. 1990s — Statement about living boldly
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When I feel like saying something, I say it.

c. 1980s-1990s — Statement about self-expression
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Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

c. 1990s — Statement about independence
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I won't be happy until I'm famous like God.

c. 1990s — Statement about fame
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I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

c. 2000s — Statement about her life (likely during her marriage to Guy Ritchie)
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I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia.

c. 2000s — Self-description
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We lie right next to each other with our BlackBerrys under our pillows. It's not unromantic, it's practical.

c. 2008 — Interview, on her relationship with Guy Ritchie
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I think I have a d**k in my brain. I don't need to have one between my legs. It would be like having a third leg.

c. 2008 — Interview
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Maybe I'm a gay man in a woman's body.

c. 2008 — Interview
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Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

c. 2008 — Interview
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Strong women love big hickies.

c. 2008 — Interview
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Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them!

c. 2008 — Statement
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If you don't like my attitude, then you can f**k off. Just go to Texas and you can suck George Bush's d**k.

c. 2008 — Onstage at the Coachella music festival
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Most priests are gay.

c. 2008 — Statement
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I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

c. 2000s — Statement about New York
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

c. 2018 — Statement about her name
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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

c. 2018 — Witty remark
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