The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
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To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into 'Starboy' is an honor.
