The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Night
  • Film
  • Wine

• I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Things

• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Security

• My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Once
  • Hindu

• It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Life
  • Age

• November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Country
  • Cool
  • Christmas

• I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrities

• In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Beginning
  • End

• You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Stop
  • Look

• But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • May
  • Problem
  • Serious

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Military
  • Transformation

• I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• The cynic says 'blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.' I say 'blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed.'

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Blessed

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Musicians
  • Played

• I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Opinion

• Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Mistake

• The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Words
  • Opinion
  • Worry

• I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

  

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