Cyndi Lauper Quotes
I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
Sam Yagan
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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'
Patch Adams
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
Douglass North
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I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Channing Tatum
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Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Western Europeans are not having any babies.
John Rhys-Davies
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My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
Buck Owens
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
Rachel Caine
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You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
LL Cool J
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Andrew Wiles
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
T. D. Jakes
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
Edwidge Danticat
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
August Strindberg
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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
William Butler Yeats
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.
Walter de La Mare
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A really failing society has a lot of rules or laws.
Bill Mollison
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Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.
Karen Hawkins
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Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
Eddie Condon
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel