Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
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I am out of season all years round - watch machinery roar to my empty sound.Touch my heart and feel winter, hold my hand and be doomed forever.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
