The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
