The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
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We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.
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Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
