Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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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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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.
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Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
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I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.
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The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
