Leonard Lauder Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.
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I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
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Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.
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I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
