Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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!

Cyndi Lauper

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FamilySpeakFriendsYouSeeRights

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

Jim Cantalupo

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Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

John C. Danforth

GreatNationBeginActGreat Nation

There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.

Jennifer Coolidge

PeopleMeThinkSayIntelligent

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

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If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

Stanley A. McChrystal

HistoryYouDownKnowUnderstand

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

GiftLibertyCivilizationIndividual

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

CommunicationWorldUnderstandingWay

Dr. King's last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less well-known is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions.

Tom Perez

StruggleSpringKingPeopleCity

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Tom Coburn

PromisesSecuritySocial Security

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

Michel Gondry

CultureI AmSpaceSayMoreOut

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

MusicKnowledgeWorldMankindCannot

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

DMX

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