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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'… talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders.'
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
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People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.
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I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
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You whisper, 'You have loved enough, Now let me be the Lover.'
