The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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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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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are.
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We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we're just not seeing that.
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My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
