Wyclef Jean Quotes
America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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There was a certain creative excitement, expressed in glandular constrictions which he knew well.
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America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
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I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
