The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
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Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.
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There's never been a southpaw fighter to make it five rounds with me. These are championship fights, and most of them can't even make it out of the normal rounds. Fought Chael Sonnen, TKOed him in round one. Fought Vitor Belfort. He made it to round four when I ended up submitting him.
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Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
