Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise.
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
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I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.
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The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
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The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
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If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
