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Don't Go For Second Best. Put Your Love To The Test.

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I Was Thinking About Dying The Other Day The Death Thought Came While I Was Sitting On The Toilet Peeing - That's Where I Have My Most Contemplative Thoughts.

One Is That We Are All Responsible For Our Actions, Our Behavior, And Our Words, And We Must Take Responsibility For Everything We Say And Do. I Am The Architect Of My Destiny. You Can`t Blame Other People For Things That Happened To You.

Who Is My Role Model And How Long Can I Keep This Going? I Just Move Around And Do Different Things And Come Back To Music, Try Making Films And Come Back To Music, Write Children's Books And Come Back To Music.

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With All The Chaos, Pain And Suffering In The World, The Fact That My Adoption Of A Child From Who Was Living In An Orphanage, You Know, Was The Number One Story For A Week In The World. To Me, That Says More About Our Inability To Focus On The Real Problems.

Everyone Has A Self-destructive Nature In Them. It's Whether You Feed It Or Not. You Don't Have To Be A Pop Star To Feel Connected To Destruction Or Self-destruction. But Self-destruction Is Self-obsession, And Self-obsession Is Not Really Possible If You're Engaged In Raising Children. And If You Have A Spiritual Life, You're Constantly Being Asked To See Yourself As One Small Fragment In The Bigger Picture.

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If You Want Something Bad Enough The Whole World Conspires To Help You Get It.

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I Like To Touch People's Hearts.

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Make No Mistake, Madonna Is Always In Control Of The Image She Wants You To See.

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Express Yourself, Don't Repress Yourself.

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Some People Are Medicating Themselves All The Time So That They Don't Have To Embrace Themselves. If You Can't Feel, You Can't Embrace.

[george Michael] Is A Great Songwriter And He Makes Very Classy Videos, Like Me.

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I'm Very Grateful That I Had Work To Do. I May Have Thrown Myself Off A Building.

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Before Doing Any Interviews I Like To Know Who I'm Meeting With And Get A Bit Of An Idea Of Their Sensibilities.

I'll Stop When I Run Out Of Ideas.

I Don't Give A Damn If I Go To Hell. I Love You Satan. The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions.

Good Intentions

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I Am A Tip-top Starlet. That Is My Job That I Am Paid To Do.

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I Don't Give A Damn If I Go To Hell.

Beauty Is Where You Find It.

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