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.
You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.
Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'
Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
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