Cyndi Lauper Quotes
It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Women drive box office.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
