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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I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
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This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
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You whisper, 'You have loved enough, Now let me be the Lover.'
