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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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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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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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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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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Muß es sein? Es muß sein.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.
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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
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The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.
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White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
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It’s a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
