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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Money
  • Need
  • Everything

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Work
  • Past
  • Stop

• Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Conversation
  • Group
  • Twitter

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Emotions

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Know
  • Weird
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• 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.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Real
  • Want
  • Slavery

• I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Acting
  • Forget
  • Walk

• I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Normal

• I'm an old guy, so I started out playing 'Pong' with my brothers, and 'Mario Bros.' and whatnot. But we really got involved and got intense when 'Tecmo Super Bowl' came out. That's when we really started playing video games, and it got intense.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Guy

• I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.

  

  John Hunter
  • Style

• I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Sexy

• If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Experience
  • Haiti