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" I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. "
Cyndi Lauper
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" God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with. "
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" With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create. "
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" There have been great things that happened to me. "
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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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" Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "
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" You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway. "
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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 lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "
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" The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time. "
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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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" Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. "
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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 learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. "
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" If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall. "
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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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" You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing. "
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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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" Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time. "
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" Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing. "
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" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "
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" I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. "
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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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" 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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" 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 absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? "
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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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" 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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