The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

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• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Anger

• I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Faith
  • Best

• I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Drive

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • God
  • Sports
  • Training

• I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• We choose mania over boredom every time.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time

• Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • School
  • High
  • Rock

• The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Giving
  • Control
  • Action

• I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • May
  • Together
  • Girlfriend

• If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.

  

  James A. Winnefeld, Jr.

• Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.

  

  Allen Weinstein

• When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.

  

  Bobby Darin

• Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Believe
  • Struggle

• We are a complex species to observe.

  

  Jasmine Guy

• Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

  

  David Caruso
  • Long
  • Job

• I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

  

  David Axelrod
  • Today
  • Health

• Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Thursday

• The next day, the Department of Homeland Security issues warnings of attacks against railroads nationwide, and against New York City landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Number two. Thursday, June 6, 2002.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • City
  • Security
  • Bridge

• Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Bad
  • Cool

• 1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened - in 15 minutes, the world changed.

  

  Per Petterson
  • World
  • Important
  • Wall

• I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Explore

• 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

  

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  • Thursday