Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

It's your life, live it your way.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

I gotta do what make me happy.

I do what I like to do.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.