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Cyndi Lauper Biography

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. Her career has spanned over 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut female album to chart four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number one single "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three.

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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

Color, Hair, Know, Nine

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.

Effort, Efforts, Life Changing, Support, Youth

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

Practice, Stills, Study, Time

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Everybody, Like, Planets, Rivalry, Room, Rooms

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.

Thinking, People, Giving, Westwood, Hoot

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.

100, Gender, Hill, People, Strong, Weed

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

God, Important, Sleep, Things, Worry

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Hate, Mean, Men, Think

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Fashion, Love, Makeup, Reading

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Friendship, Lose, Love, Remember, See, Unconditional Love

My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

Career, Careers, Elses, Followed, Like

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.

Children, Kids, World, Help

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.

Heart, Longing, Quiet, Song, Think, Thinking

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

Done, Fun, Girl, Girls, Work

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Ahead, Brave, Creative, Like, People, Push

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Hypocrisy, Mediocrity, Play, Safe, Time

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Clothes, Complaining, Hear, Loud, Sing, Tell

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

Able, Create, Fame, Freedom, Success

It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else. . . . The problem is, 'A feminist looks like this, or is like that'. We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

Dirty, Men, Rights, Thinking

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.

Art, Careers, Clark, Disagreed, Organization

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