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My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
Cyndi Lauper
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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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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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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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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
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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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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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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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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 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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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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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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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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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
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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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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 have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
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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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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
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