The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.

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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

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• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

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  • Follow
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• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

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• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
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• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
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• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
  • Man
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• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
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• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
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• I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Media
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• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
  • Intelligent

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
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• Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

  

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  • Live
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• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
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• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
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• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

  

  Anwar Sadat
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• Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

  

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• Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Children
  • Joy

• I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Music
  • Career
  • Passion

• I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music