The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.
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What I like about this team is that they're playing up. They're not playing scared, like they're waiting for the other shoe to drop. When they were 15-1 (last season), I got the feeling that they were waiting for it to end. They didn't know how long they could maintain it.
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Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
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I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
