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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Everything does go in a circle.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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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 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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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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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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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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If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
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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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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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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 saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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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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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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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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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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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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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.