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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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.