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 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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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.
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I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
