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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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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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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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.
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I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.
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I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.
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As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.
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I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
