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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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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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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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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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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It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
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For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.
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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.
