The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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No man may make another free.
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The appropriate time for the ultimate release of the deposits will have arrived at the onset of the first post-war slump.
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.
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Other thing about Field Museum of Natural History which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would be minor variations in them.
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The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
