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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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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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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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: 'I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.'
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into 'Starboy' is an honor.
