The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Imagination
  • Irish
  • Creepy

• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • California
  • Weather

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • You
  • Something
  • Obvious

• For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Me
  • Try
  • Diet

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Hand
  • Style
  • Canvas

• Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Singing
  • Feels
  • Jazz

• My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Singing