Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

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  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

  

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  • Life
  • Work
  • Community

• People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

  

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  • People
  • Knows
  • Clothes

• If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

  

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  • Time
  • Fall
  • Waiting

• on Catholicism:

  

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• My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

  

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  • Long
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• on tolerance of gays: 'You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.'

  

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  • God
  • Remember
  • Tolerance

• You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

  

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  • English
  • Knows
  • Speak

• Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

  

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  • World
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  

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  • Rock
  • Dance
  • Answers

• Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

  

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• I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

  

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  • People
  • Want
  • Difficulty

• You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

  

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  • Hair
  • Color
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• Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

  

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  • Want
  • Picture
  • Lines

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

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  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

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  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

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  • Circles

• I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

  

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  • Today
  • Marriage
  • Equality

• Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

  

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  • People
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• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  

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  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

  

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  • Light
  • Flight
  • Shed

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

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  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

  

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  • Life
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