The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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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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Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
