Leonard Lauder Quotes

The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Model

• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Real
  • Moral
  • Start

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Effort
  • View

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Hope
  • Change
  • How Far

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Proud
  • Fame
  • Often

• There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Dare

• As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Advice

• I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Work
  • Party

• In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • Baseball

• Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Hope
  • Spiritual

• The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

  

  Leonard Lauder
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  • Writing
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