Philosophical Sayings

432 sayings found from the Contemporary era

Women have been so oppressed for so long that they believe what men say about them. And they believe they have to back a man to get the job done... As women we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other worth. Seek out strong women to be…

— Madonna December 9, 2016
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Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

— Madonna Various
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Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone...

— Madonna Various
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If I have learned one thing in my life, it is this — just go with it. If you relax, it doesn't hurt as much.

— Madonna Unknown, cited with childhood pictures of Rocco
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I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

— Madonna Unknown
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I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

— Madonna Unknown
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Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

— Madonna Unknown
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The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

— Madonna Unknown
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

— Madonna Unknown
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Nothing lasts forever. Should I?

— Madonna Unknown
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I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

— Madonna Unknown
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We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

— Madonna Various
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Beauty is where you find it.

— Madonna Various
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We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

— Madonna Various
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When people are busy making music and dancing, they're kind of too busy to hate and fight.

— Madonna Approx. 2025 (mentioned in an article)
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I'm not going to let public opinion dictate my own feelings about myself.

— Madonna Approx. 2025 (mentioned in an article)
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No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want.

— Madonna Approx. 2025 (mentioned in an article)
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I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, bec…

— Madonna February 29, 2008
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My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always pushing me. I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being, but then I feel I am still mediocre and uninteresting unless I do something else. Because even …

— Madonna Approx. 2010s
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I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man — and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncom…

— Madonna November 9, 2011
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