The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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I think TV shows have usurped films!
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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I'm mainstream.
