Cyndi Lauper Quotes
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
