The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.

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• I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Running

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Body
  • Kindness

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Housing

• I just can't read music.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Just
  • Read

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Single
  • Best
  • Player

• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• Russia has long recognized the borders of today's Ukraine. By and large, we have completed our talks on the border. Now we have to deal with the demarcation, but this is a technical issue.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Long
  • Today
  • Deals

• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Real
  • Like
  • Myths

• I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • Men
  • Guy

• Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Book
  • House

• For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Sleep
  • Tears