The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
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• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
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• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
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• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • Gift
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• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
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• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
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• When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Money
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• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
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  • Very
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• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
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  • Technology
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• It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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  • Children
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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
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  • Recognition

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
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• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
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  • Movie

• I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
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• I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Interest

• I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music