Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
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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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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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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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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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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 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.
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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 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 wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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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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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
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You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.