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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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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.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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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.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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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.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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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.
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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.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
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Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.
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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
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The DNA of 'Deadpool' shouldn't change.
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
