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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.

Cyndi Lauper

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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
Actor
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New York City
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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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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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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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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In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.
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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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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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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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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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It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
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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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I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.
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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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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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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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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
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If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
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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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Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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