Michel Martelly Quotes
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.
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You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
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Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
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The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.
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My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
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There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
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My number one financial priority is security. Not having to worry about how I am going to meet the bills and not owing anybody anything. I keep my outgoings as low as possible and save as much as I can.
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Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.
