Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
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For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.
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The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
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Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.
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I loved Latin - the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history - but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. … In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin - a subject I loved - really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
