"I didn't want to write for pay. I……" — Leonard Cohen
"I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write."
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Leonard Cohen
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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 Paid Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on…
— Arthur Ashe
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't…
— David Bailey
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
— Abigail Adams
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
— Charles Barkley
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of…
— Roseanne Barr
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
— Robert Benchley
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
— Annie Besant
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