Leonard Cohen Quotes
Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter. When he talks like this you don't know what he's after.
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter. When he talks like this you don't know what he's after.
