Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
