"It's the notion that there is no perfection……" — Leonard Cohen
"It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances."
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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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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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