Leonard Lauder Quotes
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
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Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.
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I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.
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I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
