Leonard Cohen Quotes

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

Leonard Cohen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Joe Morton

FatherServiceJobMeSocietyYou

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

Melissa McCarthy

ThoughtWishSometimesNeverSize

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

Michael Corbat

WorkOpportunityTodayDecisionTeam

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Solomon Burke

RestaurantFatEggBoxOutCheck

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Robert Ballard

ScienceWrongEarthStudentDrift

The experience of being a Premier League player playing every week is just massive.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

ExperienceWeekPlayingBeingJust

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Martin Parr

WorkWorldPhotographyComplicated

I never dated much in high school or college.

David Spade

SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolNever

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Christie Brinkley

JobMeWorldFriendsGoSay

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Brian Behlendorf

ProcessTrueDevelopmentWayOpen

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.

Bob Graham

WarBeliefGatheringPresidentMore

I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see me again. It's my easiest, nicest thing. So if you're giving me something extra to do, an extra step to make bathtime last longer, then I'll do it.

Poppy Delevingne

StepMeEndGivingYouBath

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