Leonard Cohen Quotes

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

Leonard Cohen

• God
• Children
• Vision
• Sacrifice
• Demon

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

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• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

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• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
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• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
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• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Time
  • Relationship

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

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  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

  

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  • Music
  • Me
  • Everything

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

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  • People
  • Great
  • True

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
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• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

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  • World
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• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

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  • You
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• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
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• Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)

  

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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

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  • World
  • Man
  • End

• It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • State
  • Impermanence

• One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Theories

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • God
  • Children
  • Vision