Leonard Lauder Quotes
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.”
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One person really can make a difference.
