The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.
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People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
