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.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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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.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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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.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
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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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
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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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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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.

  

  D. L. Hughley
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• We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

  

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• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

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• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  

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• I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

  

  Leeza Gibbons
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• With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'

  

  Kevin Bacon
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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.

  

  Leonard Cohen
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