I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna CicconeRead
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Interpretation
Marriage can be perceived as a trivial and old-fashioned concept after experiencing it.
This quote by Madonna Ciccone reflects a playful cynicism about the institution of marriage. It suggests that while marriage is traditionally viewed as a significant milestone in life, experiencing it can lead to the realization that it may not hold the value or seriousness that society often attributes to it. By advocating for everyone to marry at least once, she implies that firsthand experience can lead to a humorous or critical understanding of this societal norm.
In practice
In a speech at a wedding reception, expressing humorous skepticism about the institution of marriage.
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
i won't be happy until i'm famous like God
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.
Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.
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