Leonard Cohen Quotes
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
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Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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Representation is so important because it's hard for kids to want to be what they can't see. Little girls and boys need to know that it's natural for girls to love science and tech.
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Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
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The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
