The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
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Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in 'Game of Thrones.' All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional.
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My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
