Leonard Cohen Quotes
When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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I've always thought I was talented.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.
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I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other.
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When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
