The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
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Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
