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

• 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

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Fear
  • Focus
  • Answer

• It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • She
  • Soul

• You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Different
  • Art
  • Taken

• The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Fun

• 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