Wyclef Jean Quotes

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

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• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Real
  • Player
  • Hair

• I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Always
  • Chance

• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • Independent
  • Look

• My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sister

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Literature

• ... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  

  Moses
  • God
  • Worship
  • Jealous

• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Imperfection

• There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Transformation

• I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Positive
  • Projects
  • Ghetto