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.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • End

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• 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?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Art
  • Internet

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Know
  • Dying
  • Bookstore

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Lost

• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Free
  • Dark

• It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Search
  • Architecture

• When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • God
  • Light
  • Inspiration

• We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • People
  • Human
  • Movement

• When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Light
  • Dark