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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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I just can't read music.
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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.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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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.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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If you feel comfortable by shaving your body, then shave your body. I feel comfortable keeping my body ready by shaving. I don't think it's unmanly to shave; I think that if you can get past that, you're fine.
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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.
