"If you're squeezed for information, / that's when……" — Leonard Cohen
"If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come."
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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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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things,…
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food…
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Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of…
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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