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.
Illeana Douglas
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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.
Ike Barinholtz
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Ingrid Betancourt
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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.
Candace Bushnell
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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.
Aaron Swartz
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor
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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.
Gary Ackerman
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
Harlan Coben
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
Felicity Huffman
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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.
Adam Davidson
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Randall Terry
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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For them to get up in the morning, come over here and get beat up and play, to do that they've demonstrated a tremendous amount of respect for our players. I would like to pass legislation even if it meant reducing a scholarship. ... I think we need to reward them.
C. Vivian Stringer
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
Parker Posey
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The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I'm a studio rat.
The Weeknd