Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.