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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I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.
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I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
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My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
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I'm a studio rat.
