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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -- Erma Bombeck
I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked. -- Dolly Parton
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. -- Saul Steinberg
There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna. -- Michael Bolton
Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy. -- Christian Louboutin
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself. -- Shakira
I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else. -- Cyndi Lauper
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity. -- Carole King
They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed. -- Bill Maher
A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother. -- Pope Francis
Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same. -- Janice Dickinson
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration. -- Charles Spurgeon
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. -- David Bowie
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me. -- M.I.A.
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable. -- Taylor Swift
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. -- Camille Paglia
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. -- Camille Paglia
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was definitely inspired by Madonna. -- Ariana Grande
Madonna is a living, breathing cash register. -- Boy George
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella -- Nicki Minaj
I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney. -- Andy Cohen
I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. -- Patti LuPone
Madonna, as we know, is very difficult, -- Giorgio Armani
I want to be the black Madonna. -- Rihanna
Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls. -- Rufus Wainwright
The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
I think Madonna might have a multiple personality. -- Maripol
It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna. -- Rowan Atkinson
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else. -- Steven Morrissey
I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity. -- Paul Gigot
Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle? -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna. -- Greg Gutfeld
Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that. -- Robbie Williams
I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless. -- Cathy Freeman
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Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime! -- Guy Oseary
Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. -- Jeremy Scott
I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. -- Jenna Dewan
On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body. -- Boy George
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy. -- Dennis Rodman
I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice. -- Rich Fulcher
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. -- Stephen Hawking
Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking. -- Simon Cowell
At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day -- Amy Winehouse
Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos. -- Camille Paglia
If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga. -- Jon Bon Jovi
But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies. -- Norman Jewison
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that -- Monica Seles
I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston. -- Concha Buika
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that. -- Monica Seles
Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna. -- Erma Bombeck
Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs. -- Paul Oakenfold
Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head. -- Paul McCartney
I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna. -- Big Pun
Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her. -- Maripol
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness. -- Rita Ora
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. -- Camille Paglia
It was the best night of my life, getting to dance on stage with Madonna! -- Amy Schumer
Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis. -- Liz Phair
Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. -- Boy George
I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple. -- Ming-Na Wen
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. -- Tipper Gore
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable. -- Bette Midler
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna! -- Anne Robinson
Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it. -- Dennis Rodman
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. -- Rob Sheffield
Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. -- Steven Morrissey
Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will. -- Joan Cusack
I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there. -- Carrie Fisher
I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved. -- Nile Rodgers
The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie. -- Mike Pesca
I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna. -- Psy
The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net. -- Russell Howard
Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high! -- Susan Seidelman
My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!" -- Neon Hitch
Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go. -- Drake
I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that. -- George Michael
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her. -- Guy Ritchie
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration. -- Camille Paglia
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna. -- Carson Daly
India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga. -- Padma Lakshmi
It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'. -- Simon Le Bon
I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular -- Mariah Carey
Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved. -- Nile Rodgers
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? -- Camille Paglia
The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s! -- Elisha Cuthbert
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear. -- Randy Newman
Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi! -- Gloria Trevi
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss. -- Naomi Wolf
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself! -- Britney Spears
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image. -- Louise Rennison
I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over. -- Andrea Tantaros
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go. -- Sarah Paulson
If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. -- Elizabeth Banks
One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past. -- Guy Oseary
I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago -- Lady Gaga
Madonna, eat your heart out, Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10-million plus. -- Spencer Pratt
This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel) -- Uri Orbach
I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil. -- Greg Gutfeld
I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four. -- Cesar Romero
I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard. -- Winona Ryder
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed. -- Natalia Kills
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When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on. -- Pauley Perrette
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography. -- Mario Testino
[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap. -- Kim Campbell
Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe. -- Peter York
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.] -- Stephen Hawking
I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her. -- Mike Pesca
Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also. -- Lindsay Lohan
When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do. -- Paul Oakenfold

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