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

• At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Job

• I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Up

• Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • People
  • Different

• The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Live
  • Garden

• What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

  

  Renee Vivien
  • Judgment
  • Matters
  • Pure

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

  

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