Wyclef Jean Quotes
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.
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As a writer, I feel like your favorite character shouldn't be safe.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
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When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
