The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.The Weeknd
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton -
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
Ted Yoho -
If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Kate Winslet -
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
R. L. Stine -
The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey -
When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
Baltasar Kormakur
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull -
People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Karl Pilkington -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I was a complete outsider in high school.
Karen O -
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Barry Diller -
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
Olivia Colman -
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett -
What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.
Cesar Luis Menotti -
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
Jimmy Connors -
Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.
Bob Seger -
The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
Craig Brown -
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
The Weeknd