The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.
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I write larger than life. It's what I do.
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I'm a studio rat.
