Singer, performer, actress, entrepreneur who influenced numerous music artists throughout her career and
is ranked as the most successful solo artist. She has also received acclaim as a role model for businesswomen in her industry,
"achieving the kind of financial control that women had long fought for within the industry".
(1958-)
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
~ Madonna
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
~ Madonna
The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says..
the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope.
~ Madonna
Unlike the others, I'd do anything / I'm not the same; I have no shame (from a song on her first album).
~ Madonna
You have to be patient. I'm not.
~ Madonna
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
~ Madonna
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
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
~ Madonna
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality,
have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
~ Madonna
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
~ Madonna
I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
~ Madonna
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
~ Madonna
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
~ Madonna
That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
~ Madonna
If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
~ Madonna
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
~ Madonna
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~ Madonna
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
~ Madonna
I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something
that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.
~ Madonna
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like
to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.
~ Madonna
Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.
He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since
the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking,
Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets...
(1934-1996)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
