The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
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I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.
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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
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'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
