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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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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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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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
