Wyclef Jean Quotes

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
  • Vocalists

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
  • May
  • Easy

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Father

• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Professional
  • Rap

• I don't have goals in life.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Goals

• I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Cancer

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• Forgotten is forgiven.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgotten

• One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Doing
  • Self

• I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Beautiful
  • Nice
  • Places

• You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Family
  • August

• It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

  

  Kevin Systrom

• The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and, if necessary, even one's life for others shows its most highly developed form in the Aryan race. The greatness of the Aryan is not based on his intellectual powers; but rather on his willingness to devote all his faculties to the service of his community.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Sacrifice
  • Developed

• When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • School
  • Prefer
  • Roof