The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

My closet is like Bart Simpson's.

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Seems
  • Wash

• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Time
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Future
  • Never
  • Feet

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Trying
  • America

• Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

  

  Usher
  • Kids
  • Blessed
  • Look

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Night

• What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Done
  • Want

• Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Pick
  • Good Will
  • Outfits

• I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Book
  • Like
  • Better

• I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Believe
  • Confidence
  • Broken

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

  

  James Thurber
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.

  

  Jane Roberts

• We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Feeling
  • Audiences
  • Underground

• My closet is like Bart Simpson's.

  

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