The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
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I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.
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I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.
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The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I would do it.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
