"Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential."
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"My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool."
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"The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all."
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"I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music."
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"There's no law that says that you cannot be a spiritual person and a sexual person. In fact, if you have the right consciousness, sex is like a prayer. It can be a divine experience. So why do they have to be disassociated with one another?"
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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."
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"I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing."
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"I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people."
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"My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church."
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"One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring."
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"I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it."
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"You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me."
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"I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'"
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"Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul."
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"The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says.. the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope."
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"I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider."
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"There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something."
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"Having money is just the best thing in the world."
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"My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either."
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"Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control."
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