Cynthia Lord Quotes
At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
Quotes to Explore
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
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The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
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We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
