The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

I'm the most boring person to talk to.

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Power
  • Way
  • Pampered

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cool
  • Being
  • Status

• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Moving
  • Acting
  • Expect

• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Decision
  • Choices
  • Moral

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• We must tell girls their voices are important.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Teen
  • Tell

• As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • More
  • Older

• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Trying
  • Body
  • Down

• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Children
  • Generosity

• I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • People
  • Progress
  • Commitment

• A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Men
  • Mother

• Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Italian

• Der Philister … ist demnach ein Mensch ohne geistige Bedürfnisse. Hieraus nun folgt gar mancherlei: erstlich, in Hinsicht auf ihn selbst, daß er ohne geistige Genüsse bleibt; nach dem schon erwähnten Grundsatz: il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I showed people Republicans in Florida can do more than talk.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • People

• After giving birth, I never brushed my hair, my teeth, or took a shower. I looked in the mirror one day and was really depressed.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Giving
  • Hair
  • Mirror

• Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Money
  • Home
  • Society

• Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Fashion
  • Skulls
  • Dungeons

• As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Sleep

• I'm the most boring person to talk to.

  

  The Weeknd