The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.
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I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
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One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.