Leonard Cohen Quotes
I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
Quotes to Explore
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The American dream is about freedom.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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I really want to feel that I'm in a very balanced and good place in my life. And I do feel that. But I think it's always important to learn and draw little bits of inspiration from wherever we can.
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I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.
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I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
