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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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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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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You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.
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I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
