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Leonard Cohen Quotes

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

Topics

Life Motorcycle Road Feel You Kind

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

Life Simple My Life Boots Look Down

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

God Freedom Man Believe Gift Earth

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

Home School People Me Writing Go

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

Poetry Society Dark Place Separation

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

Me Someone Trying Bad Bad Boy Nice

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

Music Me Everything Rap Music Rap

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

Me Ready Go Out Shower Get

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Influence Kid Read Shakespeare

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.

Clayton M. Christensen

People Communism Society Think Say

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Fear Political Real Authoritarian

I've never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.

Christian Kind Never Been

If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.

Marriage Gun Immigration You Look

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