"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be……" — Leonard Cohen
"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. Leonard Cohen"
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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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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To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,'…
— Oprah Winfrey
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There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen
— Christopher Hitchens
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What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to…
— Harvey Keitel
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
— Xander Berkeley
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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how…
— Saul Bellow
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Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but…
— Mickey Cohen
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I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your…
— Black Francis
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I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'
— Hillary Clinton
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Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
— David Walliams
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Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.
— Bret McKenzie
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