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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.

Cyndi Lauper

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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Manager
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
Cynthia Lauper
Reina Del Pop Punk
World
Succeed
Help
Helping
Kids
Best
Children
Make

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There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
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There have been great things that happened to me.
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In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.
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I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
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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 get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
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