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 think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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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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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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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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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.
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We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
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I had a hard enough time in high school, fitting in without having to keep up with Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook - all these ways you have to keep up your image.
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If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
