Evelyn Lauder Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'
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I think it's going to be amazing to see how the world of microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and human physiology is massively changed by microgravity.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Dear God, I've done so many crazy hair colors and outfits and makeup looks where I look back and it's like, What the hell was I doing? You can't be afraid to make mistakes, you have to take risks. We all have those moments we look back on and wish weren't captured on film, but we're not alone in that.
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Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
