"Anything I tell you is an alibi for……" — Leonard Cohen
"Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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More Alibi Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are…
— Albert Camus
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
— Napoleon Hill
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions…
— Gough Whitlam
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
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You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self…
— Christy Mathewson
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you…
— Fred Beck
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves…
— Isabel Paterson
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
— Andrea Gibson
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls,…
— Mae West
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