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

  

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  • People
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• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

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  • 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.

  

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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.

  

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  • Women
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• 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.

  

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

  

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  • Me
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• 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.

  

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

  

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  • Music
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  • Everything

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

  

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

  

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  • 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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• The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

  

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• Her face kept changing and that bothered me as well. Why were human beings so unstable? The door and the curtains and the supply cabinet didn't continually change their appearance.'

  

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• I went to assure the people that Gujarat shall not tolerate any such accident. The culprits will get full punishment for their sins. Not only this, we will set an example, that nobody not even in his dream, thinks of committing a heinous crime like this.

  

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  • People
  • Dream

• In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

  

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  • Men
  • Culture

• 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