The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				The Weeknd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Kole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Larson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Vaughan Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Cronkite 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eckhard Pfeiffer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Kung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maeve Binchy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Bond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carles Puigdemont 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		War is the continuation of politics by other means. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl von Clausewitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becky Lynch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Frusciante 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrew Stanton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elisabetta Canalis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jodi Picoult 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				The Weeknd