Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986, in New York City, is a versatile artist known for her innovative music, daring fashion sense, and advocacy for individuality. Rising to fame in the late 2000s, she achieved commercial success with hits like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” from her debut album, “The Fame” (2008). Gaga’s career is marked by reinvention, exploring diverse musical styles and collaborating across genres. Beyond music, she is a prominent advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and mental health awareness. Her theatrical performances and captivating stage presence have solidified her status as a pop icon. Lady Gaga’s impact extends to film, where she won an Academy Award for her role in “A Star is Born” (2018). With numerous accolades and a dynamic presence in popular culture, she remains a dominant force in the entertainment industry.
Lady Gaga Quotes
1. “You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”
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2. “Don’t judge anyone but don’t trust anyone.”
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3. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”
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4. “If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.”
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5. “People will always talk, so lets give them something to talk about.”
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6. “Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
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7. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”
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8. “Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.”
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9. “Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.”
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10. “You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don’t love yourself.”
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11. “Don’t be a drag. Just be a queen.”
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12. “They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.”
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13. “I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.”
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14. “I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.”
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15. “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker’s reflection.”
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16. “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”
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17. “Well, that’s your opinion, isn’t it? And I’m not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
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18. “My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.”
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19. “For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.”
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20. “I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, “Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
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21. “As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
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22. “Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.”
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23. “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.”
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24. “We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.”
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25. “I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am.”
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26. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.”
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27. “You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.”
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28. “I’m going to be a star, you know why? Because I have nothing left to lose.”
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29. “It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.”
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30. “In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!”
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31. “I don’t care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”
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32. “The only better thing than a unicorn, is a gay unicorn.”
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33. “People want you to fail.”
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34. “Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.”
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35. “I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.”
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36. “Money can run out but talent is forever.”
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37. “I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.”
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38. “I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.”
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39. “Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.”
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40. “I don’t need to be on top to know I’m worth it.”
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41. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.”
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42. “I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.”
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43. “The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don’t ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.”
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44. “The reason I don’t want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don’t want anyone to control me because I don’t want anyone to control anyone.”
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45. “Stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves; its your responsibility.”
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46. “I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.”
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47. “I’m supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I’m lonely. But I’m married to my loneliness.”
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48. “Music changed my life. I don’t know who I would be without it. Don’t ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.”
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49. “No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right track baby I was born to survive.”
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50. “My mama told me when I was young we’re all born SUPERSTARS!”
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51. “I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don’t feel bad about it.”
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52. “If you’re a strong female, you don’t need permission.”
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53. “Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.”
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54. “I’m on the edge with you.”
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55. “Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.”
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56. “I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.”
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57. “You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith define your beauty.”
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58. “It’s hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I’m ready. I’m ready for my performance.”
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59. “It’s OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say? I think it’s an attitude.”
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60. “Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
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61. “I’m not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars…”
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62. “I’m not real. I’m theatre.”
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63. “Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?”
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64. “I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.”
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65. “No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.”
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66. “It’s always wrong to hate, but it’s never wrong to love.”
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67. “Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.”
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68. “Don’t idolize me, idolize yourself.”
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69. “I write music every day.”
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70. “Love is an interesting thing.”
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71. “Depression doesn’t take away your talents – it just makes them harder to find.”
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72. “I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.”
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73. “I don’t want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul.”
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74. “I’m already crazy. I’m a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don’t think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”
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75. “I think that artifice is the new reality. It’s more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.”
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76. “I’m encouraging you to know what you’re worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house – nobody is worth more than anybody else.”
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77. “I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about?”
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78. “There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It’s not a choice, we’re born this way.”
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79. “I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that ever made you feel like you don’t belong.”
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80. “I don’t really ever compare myself to other people, I don’t even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.”
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81. “Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.”
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81. “For all my love little monsters, I am your mom. You are my child in my hand, I protect you like my eyes but don’t worry I’ll catch you if you fall.”
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82. “My ‘home’ is a controversial topic. I don’t exactly have one. I live all over the world.”
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83. “Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.”
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84. “I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet.”
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85. “They’re not prosthetics. They’re my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They’ve always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.”
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86. “There is nothing Holy about hatred.”
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87. “When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.”
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88. “I like pushing boundaries.”
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89. “My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.”
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90. “If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.”
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91. “How can I protect something so perfect without evil…”
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92. “Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.”― Lady Gaga
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93. “Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.”
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94. “I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.”
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95. “I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don’t enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.”
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96. “Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.”
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97. “I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, ‘It’s OK to be sad.’ I’ve been trained to love my darkness.”
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98. “I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life.”
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99. “Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun.”
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100. “I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
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101. “I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.”
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102. “At the end of the day, you won’t be happy until you love yourself.”
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103. “Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.”
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104. “Confidence is key, if you don’t have it, fake it!”
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105. “I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling.”
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106. “I was so ashamed of who I was.”
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107. “I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.”
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108. “I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.”
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109. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.”
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110. “I’m a wandering gypsy.”
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111. “Don’t be insecure, if your heart is pure.”
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112. “Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR.”
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113. “It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.”
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114. “It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.”
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115. “You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.”
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116. “I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.”
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117. “You were a perfect illusion.”
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118. “Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.”
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119. “When I die, they’ll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something.”
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120. “I don’t wanna be alone forever but I can be tonight.”
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121. “Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.”
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122. “I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.”
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123. “It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.”
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124. “Never be afraid to dream.”
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125. “I thought equality was non-negotiable.”
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126. “It’s not that I don’t like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.”
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127. “I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”
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128. “If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.”
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129. “Po-po-po-poker face, po-po-poker face.”
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130. “If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.”
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131. “A girl’s just as hot as the shoes she choose.”
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132. “There’s no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.”
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133. “I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.”
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134. “I’m single right now and I’ve chosen to be single because I don’t have the time to get to know anybody. So it’s okay not to have sex, it’s okay to get to know people. I’m celibate. Celibacy’s fine.”
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135. “I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left. I’m lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.”
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136. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
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137. “I’d rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.”
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138. “My new year’s resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”
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139. “I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.”
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140. “People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.”
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141. “There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.”
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142. “My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, ‘I can see you, because you have no pants on.’ So I’ll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.”
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143. “Be brave and celebrate with us your ‘perceived flaws,’ as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.”
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144. “Yoga makes me feel like I can do anything.”
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145. “I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.”
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146. “So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.”
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147. “If I could for a moment just inspire you to love yourself, that would be worth EVERYTHING.”
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148. “Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”
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149. “I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I’ve got nothing to hide.”
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150. “I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.”
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151. “Dirty pony, I can’t wait to hose you down.”
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152. “If I can be a leader, I will.”
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153. “People love the chaos in my brain, but I’m terrified of it.”
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154. “I can’t even drive a car. I don’t have a driver’s license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That’s it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That’s how little I own.”
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155. “I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.”
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156. “Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.”
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157. “In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.”
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158. “My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.”
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159. “It’s important not to stare, but don’t you dare look away.”
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160. “Only I can snatch my own weave.”
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161. “God bless pop music and God bless MTV.”
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162. “My talent matters more to me than the money does.”
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163. “I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that’s what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.”
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164. “I’m drawn to bad romances.”
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165. “I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.”
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166. “Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.”
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167. “Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.”
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168. “O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O’er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!”
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169. “If you have a dream, fight for it. There’s a discipline for passion. And it’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or you’re beaten up. It’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”
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170. “I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.”
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171. “My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.”
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172. “Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I’m making music.”
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173. “Pop music will never be low brow.”
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174. “I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.”
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175. “I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
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176. “I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.”
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177. “I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.”
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178. “I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.”
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179. “I love imperfections.”
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179. “Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.”
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180. “There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.”
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181. “It’s cooler to be strong.”
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182. “That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.”
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183. “I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.”
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184. “I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.”
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185. “It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.”
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186. “A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.”
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187. “I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.”
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188. “You’re love is nothing I can’t fight. Can’t sleep with a man who dims my shine.”
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189. “And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
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190. “I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.”
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191. “It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.”
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192. “I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.”
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193. “Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.”
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194. “In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’”
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195. “Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol’s Factory.”
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196. “I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”
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196. “I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.”
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197. “I’m always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I’m always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren’t fake friends.”
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198. “If you’re laying in bed next to someone that really doesn’t make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.”
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199. “Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame wont take my life.”
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200. “So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.”
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201. “I’m a little bit naked, but that’s okay.”
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202. “My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
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203. “Love is the new denim or black.”
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204. “Those girls were there because someone told them they were ‘beautiful,’ but in high fashion, beautiful isn’t enough.”
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205. “We need fantasy to survive reality.”
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206. “Baby, I was born this way.”
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