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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.

-Madonna Ciccone

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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.

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Express Yourself

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.

Obviously, I Feel A Great Sense Of Responsibility Being A Good Parent And Raising My Children. I Don't Take That Job Very Lightly. Who They Are, What They Become And What They Contribute To The World Is Very Important To Me.

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

I Think There Probably Was A Time When I Was Less Provocative. That's When I Was Married.

I Like To Be A Team Player. All The Projects I Do Are Collaborations. And I Want To Solicit The Opinions And Help Of Other People. I'm Not Interested In Being The One In Charge.

You're Frozen When Your Heart's Not Open.

One Set Of Circumstances Does Not Complete You. Maybe Nothing Ever Does. So You Work On Your Life And You Work On Your 'work' And You Try To Live Every Single Day Like It's Your Last. And You Try To Be Better, To Yourself And To Others. I Don't Always Succeed. But I Try And It's My Goal.

Nos Are Just As Valuable As Yeses In The Game Of Life. In Fact, They're Essential.

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