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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anywhere #become #certainly #down #end

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#ambitious #gross #i #i am #monstrosity

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#because #cannon #early #early age #feel

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#charles #find #him #his #i

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#absurd #advice #approach #end #foolish

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great