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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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can!
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
