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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I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.
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I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.
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Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!
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In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
