Cyndi Lauper Quotes

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Period

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Why
  • Friends

• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

  

  Carla Hall
  • You
  • Wishes
  • Changing

• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Want
  • Honesty

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • People
  • World
  • Eye

• When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

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

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Knows
  • Clothes

• The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Needs
  • Missing
  • Youth

• A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Knows
  • Madmen

• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  

  George Saville
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Knowing

• You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Needs
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  • Lows