I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaRead
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the nature of fame and the human desires that accompany it, suggesting that understanding and managing these desires is crucial.
Lady Gaga's quote emphasizes that fame is not just a superficial status but is deeply intertwined with human desires. It highlights the importance of recognizing these cyclical desires, advocating for a mindful approach to fame that involves either letting go of or skillfully managing our aspirations and cravings for recognition and validation from others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the challenges of fame in the entertainment industry.
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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.
Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. Whatβs the line? I donβt have a line.
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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