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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

lines on the record: 82
first: 2019-11-06
most recent: 2019-11-06
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“And I looked at myself in the mirror and I literally made myself. I invented Lady Gaga and it made me feel strong. It made me feel powerful. And I've suffered from depression since I was a little girl. But oh my goodness, like the superhero that flew out of me. It's like Clark Kent and Superman, except maybe Clark Kent didn't have the mental issues with Superman doesn't have. For me, it gave me wings to fly. And that's also why I refused to change. So as my career progressed, this is before I was even famous, when people would say like, oh, the makeup, there's too much makeup. There's too much this is that. There's too much over the top, blah, blah, blah, you know. For me, I was like, this is my life force. This is what helps me fly.”
2019-11-06 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lady Gaga: Heal Through Kindness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's very powerful, and I felt so just not beautiful when I was young and when I left college and I, you know, my parents were like not very pleased with me at the time. I said, I wanted to be a musician. I worked three jobs, paid my own rent, and I went to the drugstore to buy makeup and I experimented with color.”
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“What they would normally have to spend on a product like that, but also more importantly, what I've seen is people love the message and they feel so liberated. And I'm seeing so many different types of people, all different types of gender identities coming forward with the makeup on, whether they're copying my looks or doing things completely on their own and being inventive. It's been wonderful to watch. And like I said, the truth is, yes, of course, I want people to love the products. They're wonderful products. But what I really want is for them to take that message and just inject it into their heart and spread it around the world.”
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“I have seen the reaction to the lion, and it's made me really happy because, yes, people love the products. There's a lot of innovation and they're good quality products for a lower price point, which was really, really important to me. I wanted people to have the best and not spend.”
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“And it's actually a play on two things. And we talked about this the other day. But so Bauhaus is functional art stemming from Germany. So you know like a couch or a chair or a clock, that's Bauhaus art. It's an invention. It's art that's functional for humankind. And also in underground ballroom dance culture in New York, they would call the different houses that would compete against each other. They were called houses. So people would have dance offs and they would be called house of something. So we began as house of gaga and now we became house laboratories. And I also liked it because house implies home. You know, I want people to feel at home. Make yourself comfortable. We all love you.”
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“I like to play and I like to have freedom. I don't want to be told how I should look. And that's what I want people to feel from House Laboratories. I'm not telling you how to look. I just want you to love yourself. And if I can provide things that in some way can help you love yourself, that's wonderful. And whether you wear the makeup or not, I just want the message of that line in the beauty world to exist.”
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“The line reflects my own style aesthetic in that its products that you can either be very clean or very messy with. And they're very versatile. So that's very me. Sometimes I'm very clean and very precise, you know, have my winged eyeliner and my perfectly lined red lip if I like and other times I like to rub some eyeshadow on my face real greasy and look like a punk and run out the door and don't do my hair you know it's it's it's a line that”
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“All gender identities, all racial identities, everyone. I want and every age, you know, this is for everyone. This is a company that is built on the basis of kindness, of being inclusive, of being loving and inspiring love. Of course, I love to inspire creativity in people, but not everyone necessarily wants to be creative with makeup. They just maybe might like it, and they might not. But I just wanted it truly to exist.”
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“And I wanted to open that door. This company exists in an influential space in culture where we say that our house, your rules, and everyone is welcome, all gender identities.”
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“Look a certain way to be perfect, to show off themselves, to be famous for their beauty. And I wanted to create a line that was, you know, where we begun with color, right? We began everything that's come out so far and that we're putting out is color. That's what changed my life. And I wanted to put out products and things that people could use or not use, right? And put out a message that I hoped would resonate the most. You know, that kid at home could sit quietly, maybe in his room, and put some makeup on and be by himself and look in the mirror and say, this is how I see myself. I know maybe my mom doesn't see me this way. My dad doesn't see me this way. My friends may not see me this way, and I might not be ready to tell them, but this is how I see me.”
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“Well, not only did I feel A, that I had the time because I wanted to put everything into it, which I do with everything that I do. I don't just like put a company together, hire a staff and have them do it. I said this the other night at our launch event. I said my fingerprints are all over this. It's a crime scene. But I wanted to do it because, A, I had the time to do it. And B, I felt that I had the platform and had built the foundation around what I stand for and what we stand for so that when this company came out, it would be a rebellion in a kind way against the status quo of beauty as it is today, which is in many ways on social media.”
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“Bit more brave. That's what I would say. I wouldn't say it's a false life. I would say that that's a reality and that that reality can change. It might not change overnight. But if you give yourself time and you're patient with yourself, it can change. And that's actually also why I made house laboratories truthfully. And I'm not just plugging that because we are...”
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“But give yourself time. Allow yourself to take little bites every day. That's what I would say. Take little bites of bravery. I believe Born the Slay Foundation. We strive for a kinder and braver world and to empower people in that way. So take little bites of empowerment. Take little bites of bravery. Little bites of courage. Take little bites of kindness, whether it's to yourself or someone else. I actually find, interestingly enough, like if I'm having a tough day mentally, I find that it helps me to help someone else. So instead of worrying about all the things that are going on in my mind, I reach out to someone else and see how they're doing. And it takes me out of me and it puts me in a mode of kindness. And then I look at myself and I say, oh, you just helped someone. You did a good thing today. And then I feel”
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“It's not so easy to practice. I mean, if you feel shame for who you are and you don't feel supported by people around you, you're afraid. Shame is powerful. And I can say be brave. I can say, you know, love yourself, you know, but that's like, it's almost instructive and like pandering.”
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“You know, I think that what I would say that truthfully is that it's not false if you are not yet out in the open about who you are, I would have compassion for yourself that you're not ready yet. And take steps every day. Bravery is kind of say to someone, be brave, right?”
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“what it taught me was I'm living in a mansion in Laurel Canyon and I have yes everything at my disposal for people to help me do my job right and fame might be difficult and there might be things that are challenging for me but there are so many people in the world who are suffering and what's important is that I remember how lucky I am have that gratitude right and then practice it every single day and spread a message of love and kindness around the world so that people are aware of humanity on a global level.”
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“Yet what's kind of incredible is even in the favelas in Rio, right? So some of the kindest people that I've ever met in my life.”
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“I've been around the world. I've been around the world many times. And I've not just been around the world to perform, but I've been around the world to do charity. I have seen the depths of poverty, of famine, the poorest parts of the world. I've seen people that have absolutely nothing, women that have children that they can't feed because they don't have food. They're so stressed out. They can't even breastfeed their children. Their children are starving. I've been to orphanages. I've had children wrap their arms around me looking me in the eye, like begging me to take them home. I've done demolition work before shows after Hurricane Katrina to help with a woman's home who lost completely everything. And I did the demo work myself. Things that are truly the darkest parts of the earth.”
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“Well, I can tell you what it is for me, and I could make in the best of ways possible a poetic way for other people to practice it.”
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“I would say it's a very mindful act of making sure that you are not me, me, me, me, me, narcissistic all the time, right? Things are not all about you. When you are in the world, things are about us. This is us.”
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“He always said please, and he always said thank you. And I always thought that was so interesting. Someone with so much power, with so many people looking up to them, the power of saying please and saying thank you and gratitude. So for me, that's a daily practice. And there's no one on my team that I work with. There's no one in the house of Gaga. That's what I call my team. There's no one here that is unkind. Everyone here is kind to each other. I'm kind to everyone around me. And also, we also practice self-kindness, self-compassion. I think that that's also important, self-love. That's a form of kindness.”
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“I actively practice kindness every day and I make sure that kindness is a part of my life all the time. Actually also was inspired to be that way through reading about Andy Warhol.”
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“She doesn't have a mean bone in her body. She doesn't operate that way. It's kind of like she, when she was made by the universe, they left the mean part out”
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“Met my family. My family did. It was a sense of kindness, and my mother is an extremely kind person, and you've met her before.”
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“Was bullied, and I would say, Mom, I don't know what to do. She would always say kill him with kindness and maybe kill him as an aggressive way of saying it, but You know, she meant it in the most kind of ways. What she meant was, is don't fight fire with fire. Fight fire with water”
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“Well, that was a bit cunning. So I don't know that that was completely kind. That was a bit cunning. But, you know, I learned from my mom, Oprah. My mom, when I would come home from school, if I”
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“Yes, yes, exactly. And that was sort of the beginning. I have a responsibility to the world. I actually said this the other day on social media. I said, I didn't do this for fame. I did it for impact. And that's the truth. And I recognized very early on that my impact was to help liberate people through kindness. I mean, I think it's the most powerful thing in the world. And in the space of mental illness”
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“For me, it's kind of like all I could do was think about how could I give back and what I saw was that I would meet people and they would tell me stories. And a lot of the stories looked like I came out to my parents because of you or I got kicked out of my house because I'm gay and I was homeless, but your music and your message gave me the strength to find a job and to survive. And once I heard these stories, I made Born This Way Foundation with my mother.”
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“And looking out into the audience and seeing so many people that were like me, people that felt different, that didn't feel seen or understood. And then also seeing a lot of kids that felt afraid to be open about who they were. And it became sort of an existential experience for me where I thought about what it means to be an individual. I wanted to fight for those individuals. I couldn't in my mind reckon with this idea of, okay, I'm going to make music and sell tickets and they're going to buy tickets to see my shows. I'm going to make money. They're going to buy merchandise and I'll make money. And then I'm just going to go home and go to sleep. In my head, that equation, you know, one plus one.”
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“And outsiders in a lot of ways. So for me, I really view my career and even what I'm doing now is it's a rebellion against all the things in the world that I see to be unkind. And what I do through my music, through my acting, through my philanthropy, and through this beauty linehouse laboratories, it's really a rebellion against the status quo of what is unkind and trying to break the mold and say kindness frees all things kindness heals the world kindness heals people it's what brings us together it's what keeps us healthy”
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“I think after the past 10 years, as my career has grown and changed and I've done different things, I've really become very mindful of my position in the world and my responsibility to humanity and for those who follow me. And I consider myself to be a kindness punk. I look back at everything I've done and I look at what I'm doing now and punks of reputation for being rebellious, right?”
2019-11-06 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lady Gaga: Heal Through Kindness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what I've been doing with Al, which, you know, they've been so kind, is they've really embraced house laboratories, the beauty company that have started. And I'm very close friends with the editor, Stephen Gann. I've known him for over a decade. And I really wanted to do something special for this issue. And quite frankly, there's no other person on the planet other than you that I would rather do this with.”
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