Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Round numbers are always false.
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You whisper, 'You have loved enough, Now let me be the Lover.'
