The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

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• 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Sports
  • Playing
  • Speed

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Model
  • For Him

• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Wise

• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Long
  • Wind
  • Sky

• I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • School
  • Fighting

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.so trthen despererux died i n heaven and in peace

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Peace

• And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Face
  • Form
  • Trace

• John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Doubt

• The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time

• If you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveWhat comes after thisMomentary blissConsequence of what you do to me

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House

• No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Life
  • World

• For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

  

  Chevy Chase

• You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Mistake

• I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying."

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Boring

• It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Feeling
  • Details
  • Scares

• I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Great
  • Character
  • Knowledge

• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Work
  • Famous
  • Funeral

• Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

  

  The Weeknd