The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

  Zendaya
  • Dad
  • Point
  • Brothers

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• 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.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Together
  • Common
  • Defeat

• 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?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Sought

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• I don't believe in God.

  

  Gail Porter
  • God
  • Believe

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• All of my songs are autobiographical.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Autobiographical

• When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Different
  • City
  • Car

• Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • People
  • Pain
  • Animals

• When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

  

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