Cyndi Lauper Quotes
Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?
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By ancestry, I was born to rule.
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.