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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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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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
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By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.
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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.
