Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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Small aim is a crime.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.
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While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
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I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.
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The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
