Leonard Cohen Quotes
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
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But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
