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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
-
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.
-
My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
-
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.
-
I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
-
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.
-
I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
-
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.
-
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
-
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.
-
You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
-
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.
-
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
-
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-
Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.
-
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.
-
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
-
All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.
-
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
-
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
-
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
