Leonard Cohen Quotes
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
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The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
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So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
