Leonard Lauder Quotes
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
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I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
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The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
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I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.
