Wyclef Jean Quotes
I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
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I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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We people spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
