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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.

Cyndi Lauper

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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
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New York City
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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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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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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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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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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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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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
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In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
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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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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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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
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Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.
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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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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
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