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 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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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
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We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.
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Tiger king is quite possibly the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
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I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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You whisper, 'You have loved enough, Now let me be the Lover.'
