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

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

  

  Basil Hume
  • Decision
  • Moral
  • Choices

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• We must tell girls their voices are important.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Tell
  • Teen

• 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

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Up
  • Wish

• If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Fans
  • Now

• I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Why

• Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!

  

  Estella Warren
  • Movies
  • Champion
  • Canada

• The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Control

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

  

  The Weeknd