Cyndi Lauper Quotes
If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Education is so important.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
