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

• 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

• I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Strong
  • Perfect
  • Outside

• New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of TruthLo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Good
  • May

• My closet is like Bart Simpson's.

  

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