The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

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• Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Fast
  • Champagne

• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Time
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Drive
  • Horses
  • Kanan

• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Mother
  • Soul
  • Prayers

• My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. As I have said, this was not noticed

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Book

• When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Listening