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
  • Up
  • Night
  • Science

• 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
  • Brand
  • Data
  • Transparency

• The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'

  

  Patch Adams
  • Depression

• 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
  • Life
  • School
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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
  • Song
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

• Western Europeans are not having any babies.

  

  John Rhys-Davies

• My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Life

• Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Giving
  • Irish
  • Ireland

• I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Play
  • Stills

• 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
  • Fall
  • Doubt
  • Chance

• 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
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Smart

• Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Mean
  • Solutions
  • Idaho

• 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
  • People
  • Family
  • Imperfect

• 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
  • People
  • Joy
  • Place

• 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
  • Men
  • Skins
  • Occupation

• Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Desire

• No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Passion
  • Needed
  • Alarm clock

• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Father

• It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Waiting
  • Humble

• I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Failing