Cyndi Lauper Quotes

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

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• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Odd

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Strong
  • Race
  • Battle

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Black
  • Green

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Grateful
  • Divine

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Funny

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Women
  • Support
  • Doe

• Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Free
  • Way
  • WIld

• I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Live
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Sex

• Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Great
  • Die
  • Serious