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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Stand

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Want
  • Sell
  • Obscure

• My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Talent
  • Point
  • Delusion

• I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas,' and I knew I liked his songs, but I didn't know who it was singing them. I just knew I liked them... I started reading, watching, and just picking up everything I could about him.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Singing

• 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • Real
  • Power

• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Spirits

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

  

  The Weeknd
  • Singing